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O&M – Orientation and Mobility. Lesson #1: the long white cane

Blindness and Low vision can affect personal autonomy and the ability of spatial orientation. This impairment compromises functions that allow…

Tuesday March 27th, 2012

Considerations of a traveler with Usher Syndrome

Other photos of the trip I recently returned from a wonderful trip to Morocco. It was since a while that…

Tuesday March 6th, 2012

Disability, death and suicide. Gloomy thoughts as a hymn to life

Hands up those who have never thought of death. How many hands would be raised if I did this question?

Tuesday January 31st, 2012

How should be the house of an Usher. Tips for the domestic comfort

The house is our shell. The place where we feel protected, isolated and in a sense free.The house is an…

Thursday December 1st, 2011

Every one is the sense he has. Or why Noisyvision is NOISY-VISION?

Among the comments to the last post I published The music for an hearing impaired I found a very interesting…

Thursday October 27th, 2011

The music for an hearing impaired

I have not written about music yet. In a blog of/for the deaf and hearing impaired (and blind and visually…

Monday October 24th, 2011

Who cares about the Syndrome!

I tried to find statistics that quantify how many people are suffering from a syndrome. Anyone. I found some data…

Tuesday October 11th, 2011

The prince and the white cane

Once upon a time there was a young prince named Serhu. He was the son of a king who found…

Monday October 10th, 2011

Beeing an Usher: Like fishes in the sea. The importance of self-help groups

Being disabled means a big responsibility with yourself. You never stop to measure with the future and with others, with…

Thursday September 22nd, 2011

Hearing vs perceiving: how sound changes the meaning

As we talk we don’t pay attention to the synonyms of our language and we use them almost carelessly. Apparently.

Wednesday September 7th, 2011