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Month: February 2019

Honeymoon trends for 2019: 7 ideas to have the trip of a lifetime

Posted in Travel & Living

As much as you’ve been waiting for (and planning) your wedding day, you’ve probably also been daydreaming about your honeymoon since you got engaged. How can we blame you?! That’s our favourite part too! Since we don’t want you to have just an average vacation, here’s a list of the 7 top honeymoon trends for 2019.

Tactile ASL, talking hands

Posted in Technology & Research

On the NoisyVision website we did not talk often about Sign Language. Yet among our members and friends there are people who use this way of communicating.
Deafblind people may not have access to our channels and so it is difficult for us to reach them. Perhaps it was meant for Chiara to find us. She knows the tactile ASL and she could be the bridge between NoisyVision and this world of silence and darkness, because we also want to address the deafblind and communicate with them.
Here is the story of how Chiara learned the ASL Tactile 

See Bad, Feel Good. The book by Krister Inde

Posted in Technology & Research

In June 2018 I had the pleasure of meeting Krister Inde in person. We were in Laško, Slovenia, both invited as speakers at the first low vision conference organized by the European Blind Union, the voice of the blind and partially sighted people in Europe
The thing that struck me about Krister is the lightness with which he speaks about visual impairment, not just with words, but with all of himself.
He conveys serenity. He is the impersonation of the title of his book, because he too is visually impaired but it is clearly perceived that he is serene and happy.