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    Traveling Blind: Life Lessons from Unlikely Teachers
    Traveling Blind: Life Lessons from Unlikely Teachers
    Traveling Blind: Life Lessons from Unlikely Teachers
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    Traveling Blind: Life Lessons from Unlikely Teachers

    By Laura Fogg

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    For 35 years Laura Fogg has worked with blind children and their families, traveling throughout beautiful and sometimes treacherous Mendocino County, using her car as an office and her abundant creativity as her main teaching tool. In her remarkable memoir, Traveling Blind: Life Lessons from Unlikely Teachers, Fogg describes the challenges and delights in her life's work while portraying blindness as a condition that can be difficult and inconvenient to deal with, but which does not have to rob people of their humanity, intelligence, or zest for living.

    Fogg is remarkable in herself, having pioneered the use of the red-tipped white cane—formerly reserved for blind adults—with very young children and with those who have multiple impairments. Combining the best of American ingenuity and pioneering spirit with insight, intelligence, humility and a fierce belief that all humans deserve the right to have a say in the course of their lives, Fogg has guided countless blind children in achieving independence.

    In Traveling Blind Fogg tells the stories of fifteen of the students whose lives and experiences had the greatest impact on her. In these tales, each child is seen for who he is—rather than for who he is not, and each teaches Laura lessons about patience, hope, doubt, loss, control, judgment and, ultimately, joy.

    Traveling Blind: Life Lessons from Unlikely Teachers brings a deeper understanding of the struggles, perils and unexpected wonders of learning to negotiate this world without vision. Fogg relates her experiences, both in teaching and in learning to travel blindfolded herself, with honesty and insight, and never reduces a child to someone who should be pitied.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateSep 8, 2020
    ISBN9781098333805
    Traveling Blind: Life Lessons from Unlikely Teachers

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      First, I should mention I am the publisher of this book. But I want to explain why I chose to publish this book in the first place. Laura Fogg is an incredible teacher with over 35 years of experience working with visually impaired children in Mendocino County. She is my daughter's teacher and I have witnessed first hand the positive impact she has made on my child's life and well-being, as well as on my own. When I discovered Laura could also write, I begged her to let me publish her book. Happily she agreed. I want to share the magic that is Laura with the world and I hope that her book will also inspire and encourage others who work with and/or love a person with a vision impairment. The biggest thing that struck me about her manuscript is that the children are not portrayed as helpless, nor are they pitied. Laura tells their story plainly, with great truth, and is able to show her students as the kids they are, despite their blindness.

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