Comments for Walking Blind

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Produced by Sarah Dalsimer

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Summary: Sarah Dalsimer follows one blind New Yorker on his morning commuter.
 

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Review of Walking Blind

?Walking Blind? invites listeners to join a blind man on his daily New York City commute. As a person who lost his vision at the age of 15, Mike Cush is able to compare his perceptions of a world navigated by sight to a world navigated with a cane. Other perspectives are offered by Nancy Miller, Executive Director of Visions, and Ruth Callen, an orientation and mobility teacher, who explain the training process associated with functioning without vision.

The piece is both engaging and informative, balancing a man?s personal experience with issues that may not have come up 20 years ago, like surfing the Internet as a blind person. Though Mike is clearly thriving in his environment, I would like to have heard his take on some of the major obstacles that remain for the visually impaired.

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So that's what those yellow bumps are for...

It is a privilege to spend an afternoon with Mike on and under the streets of New York City. This well-composed, sound-rich piece allows the listener to simply accompany Mike on his daily commute, learning through engagement rather than instruction.


Review of Walking Blind

Very informational piece. We hear what Mike hears, except that Mike uses it more efficiently. We are given a chance to have a tiny glimpse of what Mike goes through each day, commuting, working and interacting. Some assumptions about the blind are corrected. Again, very informational piece.