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The purpose of this book is to contribute to our understanding of Developmental O and M, independent movement and travel in blind children. Unlike many books and articles on orientation and mobility (O&M) for blind children, this one is not about the effect of blindness on movement. Such an inquiry is self-defeating from the start, as it often begins with misconceptions and deficit-thinking about blindness and the blind child s early motor development. Instead, this book is about the effect of movement on development and the importance of movement experiences for the development of independent movement and travel in blind children. It has a clear premise: blind children must become "active movers" if they are to become independent "travelers." ... Read more

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Well written
It was very friendly written to make it easy to read.I was disappointed in that the book favored one organization over another.

Very Helpful Book
As a parent of a blind 7 year-old, I will use this book to help me to encourage my daughter to become an independent and confident traveler. I can help her learn the skills of blindness. This book would also be extremely helpful for a parent with a baby or toddler who is blind including those with multiple disabilities.Mr. Cutter suggests a partnership between parents and O&M teachers.This book would be invaluable in a O&M teacher preparation program and for current teachers.An in-depth discussion of cane use, selection, and teaching is discussed including the use of a "teaching cane."I was encouraged by the positive attitude of this book toward blindness. ... Read more

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This book is intended to form a core textbook in the graduate training courses for Rehabilitation Workers with blind people. It covers literary, sociological and psychological perspectives on acquired blindness and offers a modern antidote to dated texts which still dominate the literature. ... Read more

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This book is a unique testimony to the 'other world' of blindness, describing not the overcoming of suffering, but rather the reality of a world where perceptions of sound, silence and space are greatly changed. ... Read more

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A rich and insightful book
On Sight and Insight is a wholly remarkable and wondrous book that should be read by anyone with an interest in blindness, perception, embodiment and human existence. In this book John Hull documents his journey from the world of sight into the world of blindness, by describing what it is like to make this transition, through detailed and revealing descriptions of his daily activities, and by giving us his dreams, thoughts and reflections. His journey, in fact, is from a world of sight into one of insight, for it is not only a story of a courageous and emotionally complex life-transformation, but a profound study of who we are, how we see or do not see, touch or do not touch, how we relate to our world-and most of all an insightful study of what it means to be with one another. Anyone who reads this book will not quite hear a voice or touch or see a face in the same way again.

A good book for anyone facing blindness
A book review, by Carlton Griffin:

"On Sight & Insight, a Journey into the world of Blindness", by John Hull

After losing much of my vision over the past four years due to Retinitis Pigmentosa, I wentlooking for more information about going blind.

I recently finished thisbook and I've had a few days to reflect upon it. The book is written byJohn Hull, who tells about going blind as an adult. As a young man, Johnhas blinding cataracts.He was blind for quite some time in the hospital,long enough to teach himself braille and read several chapters in theBible.

The corrective surgery for the cataracts detached both of hisretinas, one of which they were able to correct.He was blind in his lefteye for the rest of his life, but his right eye stayed pretty dependableuntil he was about 45, and over the following three years he wentcompletely blind.

It's a new book, John went blind in the 1980's and hisbook reads like a diary or journal.It's very easy to read and John easilyholds the reader's attention.

John mostly tells what it is like,emotionally, to go blind.He talks about all aspects of blindness, but thefocus on the book is to share how it affected and affects his emotions andhis spirit; his soul.John really shares of himself in this book, it'svery frank and in some places painful.

However, I enjoyed having read thebook because it provided me with some information I was lacking, helped mecome to terms with some things that before I could not conceive.I've beenworried so much, the nagging question is always "What will it be liketo go blind, how will I live my life?".

While John's book certainlydoesn't fully answer that question, it does allow the reader to gain muchinsight into what it is like, at least from one man's perspective.Whileit did confirm a few fears I have, at least I feel more informed now;certainly the unknown is still more frightening than my actual fate.

Iwish I could say more about this book, I think Mr Hull did a fine job.Irefer to him as John in this review because I feel so close to him and hisfamily, having read the book.If you want to know what it's like for anadult to go blind, John's perspective is wonderfully told in thisbook.

Carlton Griffin ... Read more

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In this book we are interested in patterns of education,rehabilitation service, socialization, and ideas about blindness thatin large part produce the above-mentioned distinct patterns. We willexamine the economic interests of professional groups and the patternsof domination and subordination, which are present in mostrehabilitation relationships. Our central tenet is that the behaviorof blind people is not a product of the physical condition ofblindness or the amount of residual vision a blind person has. Rather,the behavior of blind people in our society is governed bysocialization. Blindness is a social problem arising from erroneous,socially constructed negative beliefs about the capacities of blindpeople involuntarily assimilated from the broader society by theblind. People learn to live independently or they learn to bedependent. The reactions of parents, teachers, peers, the healthprofessionals, rehabilitation counselors and the general public havedefined the choices available to blind people. This is the case inevery culture and society around the world. Differences result fromdifferent cultural values, levels of economic development, andhistorical traditions.

CONTENTS: Introduction. The Plan OfThe Book. Rehabilitation. Ingredients Of Empowerment. The ProfessionalWorker And The Road To Empowerment. Characteristics Of A Model StateAgency. Blending In. Communication And Empowerment. Mobility. Summary.References. ... Read more

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Blindness is a fascinating mystery to children. Sally Hobart Alexander lost her sight at the age of twenty-six, and although the experience was devastating, eventually her life changed in positive ways she never expected. In Do You Remember the Color Blue? Sally answers thirteen thought-provoking questions that children have asked her over the years about being blind. Each one addresses a different aspect of her experience, from coping with her loss and dealing with people who don't know how to treat a blind person to marrying a man she couldn't see and being a blind mom.

Illustrated with snapshots from Sally's life, and photographs of interesting gadgets, Do You Remember the Color Blue? is a candid conversation that will change children's ideas about what it means to be blind. ... Read more

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Honest answers to good questions about blindness
Kids sure ask better questions than adults a lot of the time!Good thing that Mrs Alexander is prepared to answer them in an informative way.

She explains how she lost her sight completely in her mid twenties because of a mysterious disease causing blood vessels in her retinas to bleed.Sally doesn't gloss over the grieving she went through and the difficulties she faced, and the need for constant concentration even now.But the book has an optimistic tone, explaining how she met her husband on a blind date (she notes with irony), and how her life as a wife, mother, writer and even gardener is very fulfilling.

There are interesting insights how blind people function in a sighted world, e.g. accessing information through Braille, talking books or the Optacon (optical-tactile converter), travelling with a cane or guide dogs, cooking, choosing clothes, and much else.She even discusses her visit to a school for deaf kids and whether it's better to be blind or deaf, and the effect of blindness on her religious faith (increasing it) and that of her loved ones (the opposite effect).

Learn About Blindness
Author Sally Hobart Alexander does remember the color blue because she lost her sight completely at age 26.In this book, she answers 13 questions children have asked her about going blind.Alexander's honesty and wit discussing how she met her husband, ways her two sighted children played tricks on her and how she handles day to day activities, allows the reader to understand how a blind person lives a happy, fulfilling life. A good choice for a 4th or 5th grader. Included in this book is an activity, "What does it feel like to be blind?"also a note about blindness, a list of resources and an index.The black and white photographs of Alexander, her family and innovative gadgets are set on black, white or gray backgrounds.

A Parallel Universe
You know that you're not supposed to be nosey and ask questions about someone's disability. But Sally Hobart Alexander, the author of this book, travels around the country giving talks to people about her experience with her blindness. She invites, and receives, a lot of questions from childrenand teens, and in this book she tries to answer some of them.In somerespects, it is a very satisfying book, because it calls attention to themillions of little details of ordinary life that usually require eyesight.How do you know what's in the refrigerator? How do you know what clothesmatch? Many of us don't consider that you need to face the person you aretalking to, or where to extend our hands for a handshake. Because Alexanderwas not born blind (she lost her sight gradually over two years, when shewas in her twenties), she is aware of all of the differences, and she isgenerous in sharing her experiences. But this is not just a book aboutthe details of living without sight. This book also shares some of theemotional experience of losing vision--the frustration, disappointment, andanger Alexander had to work through. And then the positive feelings oftriumph, as she learned that happiness and success do not depend on theability to see with your eyes. Basically an upbeat, interesting story, Ifound the writing a little weak. But I would recommend this book stronglyfor anyone who is struggling with any kind of disability, or anyone who issimply curious about blindness, because it is truly inspirational andfrank. ... Read more

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Returning to the themes of her classic Drama of the Gifted Child, the famed psychoanalyst examines the consequences of cruelty to children and offers ways we can heal our early psychic wounds.

More than twenty years ago, a little-known Swiss psychoanalyst wrote a book that changed the way many people viewed themselves and their world. In simple but powerful prose, the deeply moving Drama of the Gifted Child showed how parents unconsciously form and deform the emotional lives of their children. Alice Miller's stories about the roots of suffering in childhood resonated with readers, and her book soon became a backlist best seller.

In The Truth Will Set You Free Miller returns to the intensely personal tone and themes of her best-loved work. Only by embracing the truth of our past histories can any of us hope to be free of pain in the present, she argues. Miller uses vivid true stories to reveal the perils of early-childhood mistreatment and the dangers of mindless obedience to parental will. Drawing on the latest research on brain development, she shows how spanking and humiliation produce dangerous levels of denial, which leads in turn to emotional blindness and to mental barriers that cut off awareness and the ability to learn new ways of acting. If this cycle repeats itself, the grown child will perpetrate the same abuse on later generations--a message vitally important, especially given the increasing popularity of programs like Tough Love and of "child disciplinarians" like James Dobson. The Truth Will Set You Free will provoke and inform all readers who want to know Alice Miller's latest thinking on this important subject. ... Read more

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A Lack of Substance
It has been some time since I had originally read this book, but in coming back and further reflecting upon it, I feel a need to distance myself further from it.There are of course the basic, standard, good premises: bad parenting is bad and hurts children.Yet, when you get depth little more so than that, the book is sorely simplistic.Admonitions to just "love yourself" might just not be all that is needed for a true, curative psychotherapeutic process.As a licensed psychologist, and to plain and simple just be quite the bit more pragmatic, a person, breathing, I find much more depth in works such as "On Human Symbiosis and the Vicissitudes of Individuation: Infantile Psychosis," by Margaret S. Mahler and Manuel Furer and "Collected Papers on Schizophrenia and Related Subjects" by Harold F. Searles, the former showing you much more intently the inner workings of the mind of an infant or a young child in distress, with the latter showing what it is to do true psychotherapeutic work, that is, not just theory-based, but if one examines what Dr. Searles has to say, one can also see that he is giving of himself most immensely.Now, again, as a psychologist, and as a human being, more so, and more so I live, learn and thrive, I have found it most remarkable that other persons in the psychological and psychiatric professions not just only take umbrage (offense or annoyance) with my views, such that this work of Ms. Miller is simplistic and fails to strive at finding core bases for the transformation of the human psyche or better yet the amelioration of psychiatric symptomatology, better yet the working through of intrapsychic conflict, but also that they resort to plain out-and-out mockery and attempts at denigration.Maybe Ms. Miller did hit the nail on the head in noting that these unresolved conflicts lie within each of us and manifest in manifold manner; yet, Freud did say that, too.Either way, the book lacks any significant element of in-depth insight, without which change--or psychic restructuralization--is just plain not possible.And, if you get into the vanity inherent in mockery, well, it's a long characterological road on back then.

Be careful what you ask for
Miller's main premise is that God set up mankind for the fall.The truth is that God allowed the tree of knowledge of good and evil to co-exist next to the Tree of Life.Man was given a choice.Choose your own way or choose life.Man has been paying for its choice ever since....

The same goes for discipline.Miller wants to give reason to just let children do what they want to. Go ahead and do that if you want, but I am writing to warn that this thinking is destructive to the soul.Of course we have choices, but there are good choices and bad choices.As parents, it is up to us to help our children make good choices.When there are bad choices, discipline is in order.Use your best judgement what type of discipline in necessary in that situation.

Children will grow into adults and make their own decisions without our intereference eventually anyway.Hopefully by good parenting, they will learn that there are consequences to their actions.You will not be responsible to administer correction any longer, but their future spouses will, the legal system, their employers, their friends, people on the road driving next to them.Hopefully they will make good choices.

Peace.Read something like Dobson, it will help you.

Great focus on underlying causes, but not as practical as I hoped.
Alice Miller goes into a facinating and undoubtably true acount on how we are often are own worst enemy.We often poison ourselves with comfortable lies that end up causing more damage than we realize both spiritually and physically.
The Truth will Set you Free, is a wonderful title for the books content.As someone who has been meditating almost daily for the past several years I have grown to develop an awareness of myself that I did not have in earlier years.So I put Alice Miller to the test.After a meditation session I stayed sitting and relaxed and began to think Aloud the following statements pausing for 3 minutes between each one.1- He was the best father in the world and he loved me very much growing up.2- My father never loved me and wouldn't have cared if I died.3- Though he did care and provide, my father was a pathetic man who loved himself much more than he ever loved me.When I said the first two statements, I felt an inner tension in my gut and upper spine.When I claimed the last one the tension released completely.That's because the last statement was the true one, regardless of how hard it might be to admit.But such tension is subtle and not detectable by most people at first.Alice Miller states that we often take the lies told to us by society and family and embody them, but our bodies/subconscious CANNOT be lied to.And our bodies carry around the toxic lie until finally we find ourselves getting sick.Facing truth may hard for your mind to bear initially, but it's the only thing that alleviates pain in the soul and body in the long run.The only problem I have with this book it offers almost no practical guideline as to what someone can DO to get to the truth.It mentions therapy briefly.Meditation I know works too, but it took me a long time before I grew to an awareness of subtle little shifts in emotion and the body like what I experienced in the 'experiment.'The type of people who would buy this book most likely have already faced their emotional blindness on some level and are looking to learn ways to enhance that- and that practicality is what this book is missing.Still a fascinating and potentially enlightening read.

This book will break down your internal walls of silence
I read this book carefully & slowly. I will not be the same again, in that I will no longer go through life, with my eyes closed. Emotionally, this book has freed me to a great extent. I believe then, that it can do so for anyone who is honest & open.

A great book, a great author!
Alice Miller's books about the realities of childhood trauma, cruel parenting and how to overcome it are wonderful, brutally honest, and freeing.I recommend any book by Alice Miller. ... Read more

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Cave BlindnessLike Plato's cave-dwellers who only saw inaccurate reflections of reality on the wall, America has been blinded to dangerous realities inside and outside our borders, argues award-winning journalist Mort Rosenblum. Our ignorance is not just deplorable, it is literally killing us-and others. Rosenblum-who has reported from more than one hundred countries, many of which he has outlived-explains how we all can and must learn more about what's really happening in the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, in matters of war, peace, business, the environment, and education. This cri de coeur by one of our planet's most eloquent journalists is a must-read for anyone concerned about what they don't see in the newspaper or on TV. It offers both insight and practical ways for Americans to get out of the cave and see what's really going on around us. ... Read more

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Deliver us from evil
Mort Rosenblum's book, Escaping Plato's Cave, is, alas, the kind of wisdom that those who would most benefit from it, are the very same that are least likely to seek it. This is a highly reommended present for George W. Bush and his most fervent supporters, Bill O'Reilly and those that nod in approval under his rants and finally as a teaching aid for all the budding reporters that dream of working for Rupert Murdoch. To those of you that are saying; well then, what about the terrorists; I say, Bush is not making it better.

A veteran's perceptive take on the world
Mort Rosenblum's writings are always deeply perceptive, keenly observed and smartly composed. Those of us belonging to a certain journalistic generation know how wonderful Mort's dispatches were during his long tenure at The Associated Press. His books are something to look forward to, and "Plato's cave" is a delight. This kind of writing can only come from long experience and from personal knowledge of the world's complexities.

excellent!
I found Escaping Plato's Cave to be an eye opening view of the corporate journalism in American now and a "must read book". It is well written and packed with a lifetime of tales of traveling to wars and disasters as a reporter. Like a good reporter, he speaks in a well modulated and clear voice throughout despite the horrible catastrophe he is describing. He is reporting a vast attack on journalism that is not being reported in the press. This is not some fringe lunatic, but a major mainstream professional writer and reporter who has been our trusted eyes and ears fro a long time.
This is a book by an insider about how and why the news is no longer accurate reports from the source at the scene. When organizations like the AP cut down the number of reporters on location, soon the news from many places is only available from official government sources.
How can you have news without reporters? As this books shows it maybe exactly what the major news organizations are doing.
It is a first hand account of the corporate takeover that is happening in many critical areas of American life. Like all news, it is meaningless unless you understand it and believe it to be true. The many ways the truth can be spun should not be the hallmark of good journalism.
Mort Rosenblum and many other experienced journalists have been gotten rid of as part of a downsizing trend. It is a trend that suits the new owners since it cuts costs and all the difficulties with reporters in the field whose stories don't agree with the press releases from Washington. With no reporters in the field who can disagree with the word from Washington?

Thought provoking
Escaping Plato's Cave: How America's Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens Our Survival

This is a must read.A personal first hand view of today's realities
by an outstanding author.A look at the world today and a call to action. ... Read more

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Orchid of the Bayou: A Deaf Woman Faces Blindness
This is a great book-helps you understand what people with Ushers Syndrome go through.The author is very real and honest.Once you start, can't put it down! ... Read more

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In this single volume, information on blindness derived from many research areas is explained and critically evaluated. Among the subjects covered are: causes of blindness; blindness and the brain; effects of blindness on perception and cognition; attitudes toward blindness; the rehabilitation process; and blindness in infancy and childhood.

For those directly involved or interested in the subject of blindness, Professor Hollins gathers all the basic information on blindness into a single source. Uniting research and data produced in different disciplines, Understanding Blindness advocates empiricism and experimental science and describes the methodologies as well as the experiments. Understanding Blindness is written for readers with no prior experience or technical background in the study of blindness, defining terms and explaining technical concepts as they are introduced.
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When we think of wicked people in the Book of Mormon, King Noah is one of the first who comes to mind. But he never could have done the damage he did if his pleasure-loving people had not been willing to turn a blind eye to his iniquities. Michael Wilcox calls this "Noah blindness," and he says it "is evidenced in our own lives when we can't see the danger or evil in our choice of friends, influences, ideas, or environments." This talk helps us avoid the pain that inevitably follows such self-deception by showing us how to see more clearly.

Talk on 1 compact disc
Approx. running time: 74 min. ... Read more

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Shortly after John Hull went blind, after years of struggling with failing vision, he had a dream in which he was trapped on a sinking ship, submerging into another, unimaginable world. The power of this calmly eloquent, intensely perceptive memoir lies in its thorough navigation of the world of blindness -- a world in which stairs are safe and snow is frightening, where food and sex lose much of their allure and playing with one's child may be agonizingly difficult. As he describes the ways in which blindness shapes his experience of his wife and children, of strangers helpful and hostile, and, above all, of his God, Hull becomes a witness in the highest, true sense. Touching the Rock is a book that will instruct, move, and profoundly transform anyone who reads it.

"John Hull goes a long way toward taking us with him through his descent into total blindness...He lets us see with no trace of self-pity or self-praise how blindness has become far him a genuine acquisition, an unforeseeably rich gift that has made of him what so few of us are: excellent watchers and hearers of the world...triumphant in the teeth of ruin". -- Reynolds Price ... Read more

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This is a powerful book
I can't remember ever reading anything quite as compelling.I'm not going blind nor do I have any cognitive disabilities.However, if you are a practicing meditator as I am and are interested in the nature of consciousness itself, you will be quite intrigued with this highly descriptive account of both the visual and non-visual aspects of perception.If this book doesn't inspire you to start thinking outside the box, nothing will.That been said, the average reader will find this to be an unforgettable, beautifully written book well worth reading.Highly recommended.

This book has stayed with me for years
In place of the word "unsentimental" often used to describe this book I'd use "Lynchian", as in David.Blindness is just the starting-off point: The book is really a luxuriant journey into the *other* four senses and the heightened reality one begins to feel -- for instance how the white noise of a sudden rain can throw your outdoor echolocation into turmoil and immobilize you at some random place.With all respect to anyone looking for a good book on the disability, this one is for the artists.

Touched by John Hull
On the front cover Oliver Sacks is quoted:"Staggering. . . the most extraordinary, precise, deep, and beautiful account of blindness I have ever read."But this book is primarily a message of facing change and developing methods for coping.Of compensating, of reaching out, of accepting your plight and going forward.You sense the author's despair and frustration, but he manages to see his difficulties as challenges. He engages you in the struggles he faces and overcomes.After all, he has a wife and four children, he lectures and attends conferences.Perhaps the most fascinating chapter of all, for me, was how he faced giving a lecture when he could no longer read notes.He eventually learned how to write his speech in his mind so that he could simply read one page as the next ones were being formulated.I pictured it as something like the beginning of a Star Wars movie.John Hull has somelthing to teach us all.

Moving memoir
Heard the taped version of TOUCHING THE ROCK by John
Hull, a moving memoir of a university lecturer who slowly
lost his vision over a period of several years . . . he recorded
his thoughts in a diary, and I must admit to being touched
about how both he and his family dealt with his
condition . . . even typing this brings teary thoughts to
mind . . . imagine having seen a child as a youngster,
then not being able to see her again as she grows up . . . or
never having seen another child from the time he was
born . . . it makes me want to hug my daughter, Risa . . . and
to appreciate all that I do have!

A stunning picture of what it is like to become blind
This book was given to me as a gift a few years ago, and while I am neither going blind nor am actually blind, I found many of the ideas and experiences and thoughts and feelings expressed in this book to be very similar to my own.I have some particular cognitive difficulties (prosopagnosia, often called "face blindness") which give me a rather different outlook on life from most people, and I was amazed to see just how much in common my outlook on life was when compared with the author's life experiences.Well, maybe I wasn't that surprized, but it was still an eye-opening (no pun intended) experience for me to read this book in that context.

Needless to say, I enjoyed this book very very much.It reads more like a personal journal or diary than an actual book, and that gives the whole book a very personal experience when reading it. ... Read more

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A carefully researched and documented historical discussion of activism within the blind community in the United States. ... Read more

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Living with Blindness - Living Blind in a Sighted World
Having spent this, my first year in college, volunteering with two newly-blind individuals, this book was a welcome addition to my makeshift repertoire of ways to help my elderly friends live freely despite theirdisability.The book includes great ideas for mobilizing blindindividuals, increasing access to household objects and appliances, andgenerally instilling in them once again the feeling of self-sufficiencythey lost with their sight. ... Read more

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Not long ago in a backyard filled with bright green grass lived a dog named Sage.She was white with many large black spots, and even some small ones!Her fur was wavy, even on her tail!Sage was a Springer Spaniel, a type of dog that loves to smell, listen, look for, and find birds.Sage, like many Springer Spaniels, loved to explore.But, Sage sometimes had a difficult time walking, playing and discovering.You see, Sage also had a secret - she could not see.Sage was blind. As a puppy Sage's eyes did not see well.So, she learned her way around the house and the yard where she was born by using her sense of hearing and her sense of smell.If she bumped into things, including her brothers and sisters or the children of the humans she lived with, people said she was just being a wobbly, exploring puppy.They did not know Sage's secret. Sage spent many hours in the yard with her mother and her brothers and sisters.She curled up on the thick grass and slept in the warm summer sun.Sage didn't just sleep while she was outside, she also had fun.She chewed on toy bones.She rolled around and wrestled with her four brothers and two sisters.She sniffed the air and the corners of the yard, smelling birds and other animals.She listened to the many sounds, and her ears picked up some even the humans of the house could not hear.When she smelled or heard another animal, Sage became excited, wagging her tail and turning her head toward whatever she heard.That's why no one knew Sage was blind, even as she grew into an adult dog. When she was two years old, a new family came and took Sage to a different home to live with them.This family had no children; a man and a woman lived together in the house.On the way to her new home, Sage sat on the car seat listening and sniffing.Sometimes her body trembled.This new car with new people made her feel confused and a little frightened. Where was she going in this strange car?Where were the people and the home she knew so well?She wanted to be where things were familiar.What was going to happen to her and how could she get along in a different place with unknown people? ... Read more

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Children love this book!
Sage's Big Adventure: Living with Blindness is a book both children and adults enjoy.The book is used by educators to teach about writing and about self-confidence.The character, Sage, is a real blind dog, and children cheer Sage as as she adapts to her blindness and her new home.More than 25 black and white photos in the book showcase Sage in various circumstances, thereby helping the children relate to her situation.Even the Mom of a four-year-old said, "He didn't want me to stop reading; we had to finish the book in one sitting!"This is also a dog-lover's book, so don't think it's only a book for children!The story appeals to people of all ages. ... Read more