ISBN: 0-88739-299-7
218 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 8/2000
Paperback Original
Price: $13.95
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Breaking Barriers: Blind Rites of Passage
Frances Lief Neer
Breaking Barriers: Blind Rites of Passage is a collection of stories by extraordinary people, told in their own words, detailing their uncommon lives and their achievements in the face of adversity. They relate how touch, taste, smell, and hearing compensate for sight loss. These stories demonstrate how people with visual impairments mold their environment and circumstance to meet their needs and achieve their goals. All of us, sighted or not, seek respect-from ourselves as well as others-and success in our private and public lives. Human needs and capacities are universal-to think, to talk, to share, to work; these are common conditions.
Frances Lief Neer
Breaking Barriers Preface
Review: Praise for Frances Lief Neer:
"I have found this reading provocative, informative, and compassionate. Professor Neer's personality shines through on every page. Her concern is to help visually impaired persons to lead as full lives as they wish to. Dancing in the Dark is a valuable source book for the visually impaired, for their friends and families, and also for professional workers."
-Dr. Dean Edell, National News Radio and Television Medical Journalist
Bio: FRANCES LIEF NEER is the author of Dancing in the Dark and Perceiving the Elephant. Retired from teaching at City University of New York, she lectures regularly and is a guest on radio and TV frequently. Mrs. Neer, who has been blind since 1981, lives in San Francisco. You can reach her at www.visionneer.net.
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