ACB Tuesday Topics

My guest on the next Tuesday Topics show on June 16th is Cindy Hollis who has been known as Cindy Van Winkle. She works as the membership and affiliate specialist for the American Council of the Blind. We will be talking about the huge proliferation of community calls during the pandemic. But we will also … Read more

This week on Tuesday Topics we are conducting an open forum on working from home. I am hoping that lots of you who are working during the pandemic will call in to talk about your experiences. What has been easy? What has been hard? What adjustments have you had to make? Would you like to … Read more

My guest on this week’s Tuesday Topics is Deborah Kendrick. Those of you who have been around for a while may remember her as the editor of TACTIC magazine. She has been a columnist for the Cincinnati Inquirer and a frequent contributor to Access World. She has written a new book which talks about how … Read more

This week on Tuesday Topics I am deeply honored to have as my guest, Carl McCoy. On May 16th Carl turned 93. I have known him since 1977 and he was the person, for better or for worse, who introduced me to both the Florida Council of the Blind and the American Council of the … Read more

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

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