Judy Born 1952 - proof positive you can grow up without safe mobility and enjoy life to the fullest!

Safe Toddles Talks Orientation and Mobility

Judy is a poster child of success absent safe mobility. As a child, she had light and color vision – and that means she was mobility visually impaired. In the 1950s, she learned to use the long cane, but she wasn’t allowed to take it home until she was older. She didn’t really start using a long cane until grad school. She and her husband go on grand adventures around the world. He is a dog guide user and she a long cane user. Her fall into an open manhole is tough to hear – Judy is a delight. Yes, Judy proves that it is possible to grow up without safe mobility and be a highly successful adult– I’m just not clear why we ask this of our blind babies. But that's another story for another time.
This is a laugh out loud great interview –Judy describes her life as a blind traveler before smart phones –with a great story of how she used Atlas speaks an accessible computer maps to help sighted people.

I do have a hard time not crying when I hear how much she feels the ability to withstand pain marks the capacity of being a traveler. She said, "It just you don’t worry about getting hit. You don’t worry about falling down. I absolutely believe that one of the greatest survival—one of the things that, that spells how well a blind person does is how well—how able they are to tolerate pain." You might hear Judy and be inspired by how much a blind woman can enjoy life. I hear that too, but she also inspires us to provide little Judy’s being born today with a choice in safe mobility – to reduce the pain of blind travel.

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