Blindness – Navigating Blindness

Did you miss the Eye Health and Vision Resources for Parents and Caregivers Webinar?
Guess what? You can watch my presentation by clicking here.

Eye Health and Vision Resources for Parents and Caregivers

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Hi, It’s Kim and I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be presenting at the upcoming Use Your Voice: Advocacy Strategies for Children’s Vision FREE webinar!

Join Prevent Blindness and the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, from 2:00 p.m. until 3:15 p.m. ET for a 75-minute webinar Use Your Voice: Advocacy Strategies for Children’s Vision. In this webinar, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the advocacy process; the value and impact that individual and community voices have on the advocacy process; and how to effectively advocate for public policies that govern health care, eye care, and school systems to ensure responsiveness to children’s vision health needs.

This webinar will explore the following topics:

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Uber has launched a new program to support service dog handlers.

In simple terms, the program allows service dog handlers to self-identify that they will be traveling with a legitimate service dog. This information will be provided to the driver along with reminders about ADA law and Uber’s service dog policies. Note: Emotional support animals do not qualify and must use Uber pet.

Upon hearing about this new program, Kai’s first question was, “When will the drivers be notified? Because if it’s before they accept the ride, I’ll be waiting much longer.”

Uber’s communications did not explicitly state the answer, so I investigated by going through the process myself.

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