Vision Rehabilitation Therapist Appreciation Week (#VRTWeek) will be observed April 12–18, 2026. It honors Anne Sullivan’s birthday on April 14, 1866. Sullivan, a pioneer of the vision rehabilitation profession, is best known as Helen Keller’s teacher. Through her teaching, Keller learned communication and life skills. These skills helped her become an international speaker a...

Editor’s note: April 19-25 is National Volunteer Week. The Points of Light established it 50 years ago. A chance to honor volunteer service arose. It also showed how volunteers can solve complex, large-scale challenges. Volunteers help build stronger communities. They can be a force that transforms the world. Rediscovering Purpose Through Volunteering  For years, gi...

Cooking is one of the most sensory-rich activities in daily life. For people who are blind or low vision, it’s also one of the most achievable. With the right technology, the kitchen doesn’t have to feel like an obstacle course. Voice-based tools have made a big difference. They turn tasks that once needed sighted help into things people can do a...

What can you do with an interest that doesn’t fit a traditional career path? Historians, genealogists, researchers, and archivists are all used to describe people who collect and preserve history. But Peggy Chong prefers a different title: storyteller.  Since 2014, Peggy has been known as the Blind History Lady, sharing powerful and often overlooked s...

Nancy Duncan is a retired senior with diabetes. She was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 2005 and was unsure of the cause.   “Relatives in my family had it, but people weren’t diagnosed back then,” Nancy said. They just said you had the sugars and that was it.”   Over the past 20 years, Nancy has learned how to...