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NEWSLETTER No. 369

The Share The Vision newsletter highlights how speech-to-text tools are revolutionizing book creation by allowing authors to bridge the gap between spoken ideas and written manuscripts. Medical breakthroughs are also featured, including a pioneering eye injection at Moorfields Hospital that successfully restored sight in patients with the rare condition hypotony. New research from Johns Hopkins University challenges long-held beliefs in neuroscience by demonstrating how the visual system adapts and recovers after traumatic brain injury. Regarding accessibility, the RNIB is responding to new UK government proposals on pavement parking, urging for a nationwide ban to ensure safe streets for blind and partially sighted pedestrians. Finally, the organization Fight For Sight emphasizes the importance of funding research across the entire patient pathway to better understand and treat rare eye diseases.

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Reading Sight Resource Pack

Librarian with a blind reader

Share the Vision, in partnership with the Ulverscroft Foundation, The Reading Agency, and Libraries Connected, have developed a FREE Reading Sight resource pack aimed at supporting people working in libraries to better support people with vision and print impairments. 

Hard copy packs have been sent to each library service in the UK and digital versions of all the embedded resources are yours to freely download from this website.

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The Vision and Print Impaired People’s Promise

blind reader

‘I can’t see to read books anymore. The library staff know what authors I like and request items for me, it is a lifeline to me.’
Talking with Readers quote from library user, Libraries Connected

The Vision and Print Impaired People’s Promise sets out the experience that people with blindness, sight loss and other print disabilities should have through public library services. We want everyone who visits a public library to be inspired by an exciting accessible environment which makes reading and seeking information a pleasure.

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