Looking Through the Prism: Navigating Life with a Visual Disability
About this book
In Looking Through the Living an Extraordinary Life with a Visual Disability, Thomas Dana “In 1944, I was born two months premature and weighed only three pounds. I was put in an incubator to receive the oxygen necessary to keep me alive. This preventive procedure caused blindness or severe vision loss in approximately ten thousand babies born between the early 1940s and mid-1950s.” “The person I have become in seventy-plus years has evolved in part from having a visual disability, and also from not allowing that disability to define me or take full control of my life.” “At a certain point in my career, I knew my life’s work was to support academic and job accessibility for students with disabilities. My story focuses on the trials and triumphs of that journey.” “I tell my life story in this book not because what I accomplished was anything special, but rather to support the uniqueness of people with disabilities, celebrate our accomplishments and victories, and lay foundations of awareness and hope for those in the next generation and beyond.” “I will be happy if you take from this book just one idea or story that influences you to act or react differently or that challenges you in some way in your relationship with your disability, or in your interaction with a disabled person.”