28 April 2011
I have a rare disease. Luck is blind, but me too
To understand how rare Usher Syndrome is, we try to compare some data.
(Unfortunately, no data are verified and confirmed.
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Let’s say it, this time we were better. We Italians I mean.
In our language there is the word IPOVISIONE, which defines a state of visual impairment that is not comparable to blindness.
Read 21 April 2011
Synesthesia, a word for many senses
When I heard for the first time the word synesthesia, I never imagined it would be so deeply rooted in my life and my perception of things.
Read Helen Adams Keller was an American writer, activist and teacher, deaf-blind since the age of 19 months. Her story and that of her teacher Anne Sullivan, it is surprising and unique, for will, determination and strength, so as to have inspired several movies (Deliverance, The Unconquered, Anna dei miracoli, The Miracle Worker).
Read I recently described a photo taken by a photographer who is blind, with the aim of providing information readable by a screen redader so that other blind people can ‘see’ the picture and eventually the photographer may have feedback on what is imprinted on her shots and find out what they communicate to the observer.
Read 4 April 2011
What is the shape of deafblindness?
What is this strange white thing? A stone? A shell? A bone? A sculpture?
As you try to guess, I think it is very difficult to understand what it is, unless you know the name: Deafblind Shape.
Read 30 March 2011
The island of the deaf and the valley fo the blind
Have you ever wondered how life would be if most people were blind? Or, ironically, if by some remote chance, we were all blind or deaf?
Read My mother tongue (Muttersprache, I learned today) is Italian, I speak English quite well because I began to study it in school when i was 10 (rather late though) and the teacher in high school hold me in the classroom while my friends were smoking in the bathroom during the break to teach me the exact pronunciation.
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