Author: Linda Moore

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• 27.  Toy Story, Too March 26, 2016
  • Categories: Diagnosis: Newly Diagnosed, Eschenbach, Financial, Low Vision Aid, Technology: Phone/Tablet/Computer
  • Keywords: Financial, handheld magnifier, Low Vision Aid, Technology: Phone/Tablet/Computer

• 28.  Taxman March 26, 2016
  • Categories: Diagnosis: Newly Diagnosed, Financial, Video
  • Keywords: deductions, disabled taxpayers, federal tax, free tax preparation, IRS, macular degeneration tax breaks, tax breaks for visually impaired

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This is the final page in Sue’s response to a follower who brought up the subject of what happens to communication when a visually impaired person cannot see nonverbal cues.  Can we learn to recognize emotional content by listening to a person’s voice?

Improving Communications: Part 3 

• Categories: Research, Self care, Sue’s Musings, Tips for living with low vision
• Keywords: communication, communication styles, disability, language therapist, loneliness, nonverbal communication, nonverbal cues, social isolation, speech therapist, Thomas Pocklington Trust

Sue continues to write about communication when visual impairment reduces the ability to interpret visual cues.  Who is responsible for ‘fixing’ it when there are problems?

Improving Communication: Part 2

• Categories: Sue’s Musings, Tips for living with low vision
• Keywords: Adult UK sight loss pathway, communication repair strategy, communication skills, Eye Clinic Liaison Officers, language therapist, nonverbal communication, social isolation, speech therapist, support groups, UK Vision Strategy, visual cues

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• 25.  Soothe Thyself  March 25, 2016
  • Categories: Cognitive Therapy, Diagnosis: Newly Diagnosed, Sue’s Musings
  • Keywords: 5 senses, DBT, five senses, self-soothing, stress

• 26.   Toy Story March 25, 2016
  • Categories: Diagnosis: Newly Diagnosed, Low Vision Aid
  • Keywords: Blind and Visual Services, BVS, CCTV, Eschenbach, Low Vision International, magnifier, magnifyer, Magnilink

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We are always happy to receive questions from our email followers and Facebook group members.  Sue has written 3 pages about a recent observation/question about how isolating it can be to not be able to pick up on social cues because of visual impairment.  Here’s the first page…

Improving Communication: Part 1

• Categories: Depression, Self care, Self Help, Sue’s Musings, Technology: Phone/Tablet/Computer, Tips for living with low vision
• Keywords: aging, assistive devices, assistive technology, depression, facial recognition, loneliness, recognizing faces, social isolation

What happens when the screen reader software you use doesn’t work and you can’t read the small print on its support page?  Sue shares her advice – and frustrations – to get you read to…

Call Tech Support

• Categories: Technology: phone/tablet/computer, Tips for low vision, Sue’s Musings
• Keywords: ZoomText, screen reader, tech support

If you’ve been reading Sue’s pages, you know that she is not a homebody (one definition I found is “a person who likes to stay at home, especially one who is perceived as unadventurous.”)  She offers some advice if you are…

Bored, Bored, Bored

• Categories: Sue’s Musings, Tips for Living with Low Vision
• Keywords: boredom

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21.  Attention Walmart Shoppers published March 13th, 2016

• Categories: Cognitive Therapy, Diagnosis: Newly Diagnosed, Low Vision Aid, Sue’s Musings, This Project
• Keywords: acceptance, DBT, drusen-like, facial recognition, far point, magnifier, magnifiers, magnifyers, near point, Radical Acceptance, test

22.  How to Win Friends & Influence People the DBT Way published March 14th, 2016

• Categories:  Cognitive Therapy, Diagnosis: Newly Diagnosed, Tips for living with low vision
• Keywords: appear confident, assert wishes, be calm, be persistent, DBT, DEARMAN, describe, express feelings, Interpersonal Effectiveness, mindfulness, negotiate, reinforce your request

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19.   Sim City for Low Vision Folks published March 13th, 2016

• Categories: Diagnosis: Newly Diagnosed, Sue’s Musings, Technology; Apple, Tips for living with low vision
• Keywords: AMD Simulator, app, Apps store, central vision loss, centrally blind, free apps, iTunes, magnifiers, magnifyers, RNIB, Royal National Institute of Blind People, simulation, simulator, vision simulation, visually impaired

20.  I’m Baaacccckkkk! published March 13th, 2016

• Categories: Diagnosis: Newly Diagnosed, Low Vision Aid, Sue’s Musings, Tips for living with low vision
• Keywords: ADA, Americans with Disabilities Act, BBVS, Blind and Visual Services, BVS, CCTV, handheld reader, reasonable accommodations, Zoom

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Have you caught yourself saying the phrase “Yes, but…” when someone has offered you a solution to a problem? If you do a search on it, you’ll see it referred to as a syndrome that is all about the fear of stepping out of our comfort zones.  Sue has another theory.

“Yes, but…”

• Categories: Cognitive Therapy, Sue’s Musings
• Keywords: DBT, comfort zones