For the Benefit of Those Who See : Dispatches from the World of the Blind

from bakersfieldbarbara

I had no idea how life was to be blind, and after reading this book, I have a new awareness of what to do and not to do. I am a helper type, and would jump in to help a blind person. Don't do it, I have learned, as they have their world in their head, and anything I do to help only gets in their ...

from brangwinn

Excellent book written by a woman who worked for Braille Without Boundaries in both Tibet and India. Her description of the people with whom she worked brings them springing from the pages. She is continually surprised by how they are able to navigate the world where we assume sighted people have...

from CherieDooryard

I almost gave up on this about 2/3rds of the way in just because the author's constant, condescending amazement ("Blind people knew I was in the room! By my smell! Like the can adapt to blindness!") grew wearisome. However, the last bit of the book, when she is teaching English in a school for bl...