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Sarah Blake has lived with blindness/visual impairment due to premature birth since childhood. She has had several surgeries to treat complications such as detached retina, cataracts, glaucoma, and cornea damage which threatened her small amount of vision at various points in her life. She is thankful to have learned both braille and print as a young child. She travels with a dog guide.
Sarah graduated from Anderson University School of theology in 2009 with a Master of Divinity. She is a licensed minister with the Church of God (Anderson, IN) and travels as a guest speaker and singer to churches, colleges, and other community groups. She also works with companies to increase features of software that enable blind students to access foreign language materials; and she serves as co-moderator for several online discussion groups.
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The articles on this section of the site address issues related to blindness and psychosocial issues, relationships, etc. Many are personal in nature. It should be noted that the psychosocial experiences of people who are blind vary widely and that the experiences of one person in this area cannot be interpreted as representative of anyone else's experiences.
Looking for Love
On this page, I explore the experience of isolation from peers during middle childhood and the factors which I feel affect a blind child's ability to socialize.
"Why Do You Wear Those Glasses?"
This article examines some questionss people often ask about blindness and ideas for coping with the feelings they stir up.
The
Emotional Impact of vision Loss
This article examines what the literature says and a personal experience of the emotional impact of vision loss.
Blindness can provoke all kinds of thoughts and feelings for family members. Below are some of my grandmother's writings about blindness.
Adventure in the Park
My grandmother shares her reactions to watching me play in the park with an early intervention teacher.
Charlie Brown
My grandmother discusses the social problems which can occur when people do not understand blindness.
Living in an Invisible World
My grandmother compares blindness to living in an invisible world and examines the social/emotional issues I faced as a teenager.
Sarah J. Blake