New Horizons

In this week's episode, we speak with Rikki Chaplin, Advocacy Officer with Blind Citizens Australia.  Rikki informs us of an opportunity to have our say with regard to accessible public transport in Australia, and some ideas about interstate Taxi Subsidy vouchers.  We conclude with the first part of an update on the NDIS, and Adaptive Technology.  The second part of Rikki's interview will be featured in next week's programme.

In this week's episode of New Horizons, we speak with Sarah Houbolt, a performing artist who is currently mid-run in a one-woman show, Kookoo the Bird Girl, in Melbourne.  Sarah tells us of the background to her show, her story and how she works as a vision impaired performer.  Her show is running until the end of this week as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.  The Audio Described performance is on Saturday the 29th of September.

In this week's episode of New Horizons, we hear from returning guest, Tim Nield.  Tim spoke to us around a year ago to talk about the Blind AFL project.  Quite a lot has happened since then, Tim updates this and invites you to come along to a "Come and Try" day.  Also, some very important messages from BCA president, John Simpson, particularly for BCA members, about the upcoming AGM, and next year's National Convention.

In this week's edition of New Horizons, we focus once again on the NSW-ACT state division.  Sally Ulrisch, Co-ordinator of NSW/ACT with Blind Citizens Australia updates us on the upcoming State convention, and other projects happening in NSW and the ACT.

In this week's edition of New Horizons, we focus again on the National Womens branch of Blind Citizens Australia.  We are joined by Janene Sadhu, current president of the NWB, she tells us what is happening with the branch, what people can look forward to in the future and how you can get in touch.

In this week's episode, we speak with Angela Jaeschke, acting Policy and Advocacy manager with Blind Citizens Australia.  Angela updates us on accessible banking, Audio Description and some interesting news which may have a significant benefit for those of us who travel often!

In this week's episode we replay Episode number 482 from 2016.  We hear from Trans-Gender woman, stormy meiying liu about her experiences.

In this week's episode we hear about a very interesting research project being conducted in partnership with Macquarie University.  Pauline Veenstra explains her study to establish whether there are any differences in the speech of congenitally blind Australian English speakers and their sighted counterparts.  As well, news of some upcoming BCA events.  If you are a Braille user and blind since birth, contact Pauline by E-mail on [email protected]

In this week's episode, we revisit the interview from 2016, with Orientation and Mobility specialist, Daniel Kish.  Daniel specialises in Echo Location, and whilst he travels widely, is based in the US.

In this week's episode we discuss Aira, a service which launched in Australia very recently.  Aira is a service which assists blind and vision impaired individuals with both day to day tasks, and tasks out of the ordinary. Find out about the service, and its implications for the blind and low vision community.