ACB Tuesday Topics Podcast
This week on Tuesday Topics our guest is Sara Conrad. She is not only a member of the the ACB Board but also works as a patient advocate. This means she must coordinate services for patients and must also work to make sure that the treatment that is received in a hospital is both effective … Read more
During our first Tuesday Topics we asked what advantages blind people had with the pandemic. We also asked what was not going well. Brian Charlson and I will co-host the seventh Tuesday Topics and will lead a discussion to see what’s changed for people who are blind over the last seven weeks. Are we doing … Read more
On Tuesday May the fifth Judy Wilkinson and Sheila Young were my guests. Each of them is President of a state affiliate. Judy is from California and Sheila is from Florida. How has the pandemic affected their affiliates? What have they done since it started in their states? How do they think the pandemic and … Read more
On April 28th 2020, Tuesday Topics featured Eric Bridges, Executive Director of the American Council of the Blind. Obviously, he will tell us about some of the ways that ACB is responding to the pandemic and what he plans for the future. However, we will also get a chance to learn what it is like … Read more
Nobody knows where we will be in terms of the pandemic when the general elections are due to happen in November. There is already a call to make mail in ballots much more important than they have traditionally been. In some states a mail version of voting exists that is accessible and in others we … Read more
There are lots of legal and ethical issues that concern people who are blind that have come to the fore during the corona emergency. On Tuesday Topics this week we explore some of these. State guidelines exist that propose ways of choosing who will live and who will die if there aren’t enough ventilators or … Read more
Our second Tuesday Topics show features the President of ACB who will tell us more about himself and his experience and what he would like to see ACB doing during the pandemic that is a part of all our lives. Dan Spoone will tell us about growing up, his vision loss and what direction he … Read more
Hi, I’m Paul Edwards! For those of you who have been ACB Radio aficionados for many years, there will be a vague memory of an old and venerable show called “Tuesday Topics” which I hosted every week for a couple of years a long time ago. Well, Tuesday Topics is back and I hope many … Read more