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Hadley Presents: A Conversation with the Experts Hadley (podcast@hadleyhelps.org)
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4.5 • 34 Ratings
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Listen in as we get the inside scoop from experts on a wide range of topics unique to vision loss. We will ask the questions that get to the heart of the matter for you... And have some fun along the way.
Our host is Ricky Enger. To listen to this show on the telephone, call (847) 558-1317.
Have an idea for a show? Contact us at 847-784-2870 or podcast@HadleyHelps.org
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Low Vision and a Love for Hiking: The All Terrain Cane
This week we talk to Dave Epstein, the visually impaired creator of the All Terrain Cane. He shares about his life with a progressive eye disease and his love of hiking. These two pieces of Dave lead him to develop his unconventional cane.
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How to Avoid Phone and Online Scams When Living With Vision Loss
When you have vision loss, scams can be even more challenging to avoid. Listen in as we get some tips and tricks from Veronica Lewis who runs a low vision assistive technology website.
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Be My Eyes: A Free Smart Phone App for Vision Loss
Be My Eyes CEO, Mike Buckley, joins us to talk about how this free, smart phone app merges technology and human kindness and how it's now using AI to describe the world in front of you.
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Vision Loss and Justice
Recently retired, David Tatel served for decades on the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He also happens to be visually impaired. In this episode, he and Ricky talk about his recently written memoir, a book about his life as a judge, a husband, a father, a grandfather, and how all of these roles intersect with his experience with vision loss.
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Smartphones and Vision Loss: Tools You Should Know About
This week we talk smartphone tools and when you might want to use the different options. Jennifer Shimon from the Wisconsin Office for the Blind and Visually Impaired joins Ricky.
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Vision Loss Bloopers Continued
Sometimes, navigating life with vision loss goes a bit sideways. Things don't always turn out exactly as we've planned, and it can help to just laugh at these strange situations.
We've shared several episodes of listeners' stories, what we're calling vision loss bloopers. Today, Ricky Enger and Doug Walker share some more of these bloopers along with a few of their own.
Customer Reviews
Content and perspective of guests can be greatly updated and diversified
I’ve checked in with this podcast periodically over the years and have found too many of the guests belong to white privileged classes. The perspectives and insights of the topics and guests can be greatly diversified and updated to reflect current class, cultural, and gender perspectives.
For example, the last episode was about marriage and the visual loss experience. The couple they choose to interview provided superficial answers and were not able to talk deeply about the emotional experience of being blind and married. The man, after 40 years of vision loss, still refuses to use his cane while walking with his wife. This shows how much he refuses to fully face being blind. But he did not acknowledge that and chose to talk about sailing. In my opinion, guests holding intersectiona experiences would provide conversations with more depth and wisdom.