Vision Extra by Vision Australia Radio
Vision Extra is the feature blindness related interview each week, talking to authors, elite sports people, newest technology, high achievers in employment, education or other aspects of life for a person who is blind or has low vision.
Episodes
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Peter Greco hears from Alan Taylor who joined Vision Australia's Carols by Candlelight at about 16 and is still involved with it. Alan shares his experiences of being part of this time honoured event for over 30 years, and other recollections of his involvement with music.
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Peter talks to this years' Blind Australian of the Year, Maurice Gleeson OAM
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Assunta Fogliaro talks Rock climbing and how she lost her sight.
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Jane talks about the review into the Disability Discrimination Act and how to give your feedback.
You can find out more here: https://www.ag.gov.au/rights-and-protections/human-rights-and-anti-discrimination/australias-anti-discrimination-law/review-disability-discrimination-act
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Dr David Sykes, Director of the Centre for Dementia Learning at
Dementia Australia, spoke about a new app-based tool available to help support people working in health; disability and aged care to provide quality care for people living with dementia "Tell TiNA" and other supports for individuals caring for a loved one with dementia,
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In a preview to tonight's Focal Point, Peter talks to musician Ben Rowe about his latest song "Feels like Home" and we hear a special extended exert from the song.
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Alex Morris, from the Australian Electoral Commission, with news on the options available for people who are blind or vision impaired to vote at the May 3rd Federal Election - including important dates and phone numbers.
Australian Electoral Commission: Call 13 23 26 or go to: https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/ways_to_vote/?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwtdi_BhACEiwA97y8BECz3XpaVJZO2mEvuCI6j3lu3O1wF8s1WQgemBgA5CMoRAv8hxfTrBoCdOYQAvD_Bw...
Dr Kate Dempsey, CEO for ANZACATA, is very concerned that Australians with a disability who access arts therapy as a crucial therapeutic support have been left confused by an NDIS announcement last week regarding significant changes to the service.
Find out more here: http://www.anzacata.org
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Penny Holmes-Brown is Service Area Manager from APM employment, the winner of this year's Link Vision Blind Australian of the year Employer of Choice Award.
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Peter's guest on Vision Extra is Courtney Webeck. Cricketer; Tennis Athlete and student Courtney is the 2024 Blind Australian of the year.
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This is a special presentation of the interview featured on 25th September edition of Focal Point.
Haben Girma, Deafblind Advocate Extraordinaire, is a guest speaker at UNSW
Centre of Ideas. Haben is the first Deafblind Harvard Graduate;
has been named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 and was awarded the White
House Champion of Change - presented by President
Barack Obama.
Kelly Schultz is the Founder and Director for knowable.me - a platform to share your thoughts about almost everything; take part in surveys; mystery shopping and product testing. Find out more here: https://knowable.me/
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Ross McGregor, talks about NAIDOC week. Ross also tells us how he found about his indigenous heritage at the age of 32
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Paul Brown, from audio described Aotearoa, and Brad Cohen, General Director for New Zealand Opera, with the world's first use of refreshable braille displays for readers to access surtitles for NZ Opera. To find out more go to: https://nzopera.com/whats-on/accessibility/
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Aymen Majeed has just written a book "RP and Me" recounting diagnosis; education; bullying; and now with a family.
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