Last week my Mom went to a conference in Joburg called the Road Map for the Child with Visual Impairments. The speakers were all experts in the field and the topics covered were incredibly relevant to our situation. My Mom took copious notes, collected handouts and networked superbly, gathering the phone numbers and email addresses of all the amazing people who shared their wisdom and experience. When my Mom had shared all that she’d learned with us, Murray and I were overwhelmed by the realisation of how many people in this country are dedicating their lives to blind and VI children. Meaningful research is being done, technology is advancing, opportunities abound.
I’m just including the following web links, to give you an idea of some of the topics discussed and some of the organisations represented at the conference, should you have a blind or VI child in your life:
http://saaled.org.za/
http://www.eyesite.co.za/magazine/august2004/spotlight3AUG2004a.asp?mainbutton=spotlight&navbutton=spotlight3
http://www.sensorysolutions.co.za/AboutUs.htm
http://www.perkins.org/international/brailler/
http://mountbattenbrailler.com/
http://www.blindsa.org.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?c=1137
http://www.sancb.org.za/
I took Cam to Jacobus (Dr Pauw) on Friday afternoon for a quick check up. His left eye has a fair amount of bruising from the op on 22 April, but besides that it’s all good, thankfully.
The photo is of Paul Prozesky and Murray working on their engineering of a visual therapy tool to alleviate Cam’s nystagmus. (http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/516/main.html) Murray could really use your prayers over the next month. In June he flies to England to write a set of Optometry exams and he is studying just about 24/7…
‘You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! ...for those who are righteous, the way is not steep and rough. You are a God who does what is right, and you smooth out the path ahead of them. Lord, we show our trust in you by obeying your laws; our heart’s desire is to glorify your name.’ Isaiah 26:3, 7-8
I’m just including the following web links, to give you an idea of some of the topics discussed and some of the organisations represented at the conference, should you have a blind or VI child in your life:
http://saaled.org.za/
http://www.eyesite.co.za/magazine/august2004/spotlight3AUG2004a.asp?mainbutton=spotlight&navbutton=spotlight3
http://www.sensorysolutions.co.za/AboutUs.htm
http://www.perkins.org/international/brailler/
http://mountbattenbrailler.com/
http://www.blindsa.org.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?c=1137
http://www.sancb.org.za/
I took Cam to Jacobus (Dr Pauw) on Friday afternoon for a quick check up. His left eye has a fair amount of bruising from the op on 22 April, but besides that it’s all good, thankfully.
The photo is of Paul Prozesky and Murray working on their engineering of a visual therapy tool to alleviate Cam’s nystagmus. (http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/516/main.html) Murray could really use your prayers over the next month. In June he flies to England to write a set of Optometry exams and he is studying just about 24/7…
‘You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you! ...for those who are righteous, the way is not steep and rough. You are a God who does what is right, and you smooth out the path ahead of them. Lord, we show our trust in you by obeying your laws; our heart’s desire is to glorify your name.’ Isaiah 26:3, 7-8
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