Join us for the next meeting of “Worlds of Books” on Sunday, May 20, 2012, at 5:00 EDT. we will discuss A WOMAN’S PLACE by Lynn Austin, DB67644; the book is also available from bookshare. The story describes the lives of four women who have to adjust to major changes in their roles during World War II.

We look forward to a lively discussion. If you have questions, contact Mickey Prahin (mprahin@gcfn.org) or Vicky Prahin (Prahin@hadley.edu).

Hello to all listeners of accessibleworld.org and beyond. Sunday, May 20th, 2012,
will be our next program of “Issues Facing People Who Are Blind”. In this program I’d like to consider a discussion on totally blind persons versus those who are partially sighted/low vision, or what we used to call “Sight Savers” when I was a kid many, many years ago.

Are there differences in how the totals and partials were educated? Are there differences in how partials and totals were treated at home? Are there differences as to how partials and totals were allowed to be independent? Are there differences as to how partials and totals have or have not obtained employment? Do the consumer organizations of the blind treat their totally blind members different than those members who are partials? Are guide dogs trained differently for those handlers who are totally blind or partially sighted?

These and many more questions about us versus them and them versus us Will be discussed in our next Issues program slated in the Accessible Classroom of accessibleworld.org on Sunday, May 20, 2012 from 6 – 7 p.m., Pacific times, and all other times listed below. We’d love to have a really moving discussion pertaining to this issue, so please contact all of your friends who are totally blind or partially sighted to chime in with their thoughts and comments. We want an honest and open discussion in order to provide a most interesting program of a topic rarely discussed.

If you have thoughts or questions ahead of time that you would like to have discussed during this topic and would want to be certain of its being brought up, please email me ahead of time at kenmetz1946@gmail.com.