The Kiwi and the Emu Series 2 episode 4 - Sue Dymond Part 2

Come and join Carolyn and Elise as they interview Karen Plimmer and Murray Peat from Auckland who also appeared on this program in 2020.

Two legally blind parents now bringing up a 4 and a half-year-old daughter, Emily,  who is very vibrant. They discuss support workers, childcare, their plans for school and what it is like to have a young daughter and what it is like for that young daughter to have two Blind in low vision parents.

Transport is often an issue and managing Uber drivers can often be an issue for both parent and child, especially when the Uber driver doesn't know the difference between left and right. 

They also discuss support workers and how helpful they are to that normal every day life particularly when taking Emily out. 

Since our last discussion, both Karen and Murray have full-time and rewarding new jobs and enjoy the challenges and responsibilities that come with their new positions.

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The Kiwi and the Emu Series 2 episode 4 - Sue Dymond Part 2

This is Part two of the interview with Sue Dymond, a lovely lady who Elise met when she first went to Ringwood Toastmasters in February 2023.

Sue has a wealth of information regarding disability, disability rights and advocacy, the Australian National disability insurance scheme, Toastmasters and has also authored her own book. She also has a daughter with Down syndrome, Chloe.

Impart two, Sue talks about her book, more about her daughter and about people's attitude towards disability in general. 

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The Kiwi and the Emu Series 2 episode 3 - Sue Dymond Part 1

Carolyn and Elise are back to interview Sue Dymond, a lovely lady who Elise met when she first went to Ringwood Toastmasters in February 2023.

Sue has a wealth of information regarding disability, disability rights and advocacy, the Australian National disability insurance scheme, Toastmasters and has also authored her own book. She also has a daughter with Down syndrome, Chloe.

Sue is incredibly open about her life and talks more about that in the second part of our interview including more about Chloe.

Sue runs a business that Office support coordination and advocacy services to people who are on the NDIS.

Due the vast content in this interview, we agreed to break this episode in to two parts, so the “What Cheses me Off”, “What Intrigues Me” and the “Technology” segments will appear in part two. We will publish part two of this very informative interview before the end of July, so stay tuned!

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The Kiwi and the Emu Series 2 episode 2 - Helen Keller

Carolyn and Elise are back together to profile Helen Keller just after her birthday in June.

They also discussed Toastmasters, the pathways program, and its lack of accessibility to people who are blind and have low vision, hybrid meetings and Club officer training.

In New Zealand, they have just changed many laws and regulations pertaining to single use plastic bags and containers.

Elise and Carolyn also discussed the independent NDIS provider movement and had a conversation about the changes with a Voice Dream Reader, scanner, and writer.

Because the discussion was around such a well-known advocate and activist, Helen Keller. we led into a conversation about the suffragettes in the women's suffrage movement in general.

Looking forward to a speedy recovery with your Voice Carolyn and you can kiss that frog goodbye, you may get lucky and he will turn in to a handsome prince for you.

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The Kiwi and the Emu Series 2 - Welcome Back

In our season opener, Caroline and Elise are back together to discuss what is happened over the last three years with COVID-19 being something we all now live with. People are managing their lives in new and different ways.

We discussed how people are doing things a little different these days. Are you still working from home, are you having meetings online, are you wearing your jandals or thongs and do you work part time in the office.

We will cast the net wide and talk about many other things along the way. We will see how people who are blind and have low vision are coping throughout Australasia and around the world.

We will also invite in some Toastmasters as both Carolyn and Elise are active in Toastmasters International.

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What is it like to have the Coronavirus? In this special addition of the Kiwi and the emu,Episode 36 you’ll find out! We have our first guest on the show from the United States of America, Helen Watley from Belen New Mexico

Helen has a job with a company and also runs her own business, both of which she now does from home because she cannot get in to Albuquerque around 36 miles from her actual home, no left turn here, LOL!

Helen talks about the lockdowns in New Mexico and discusses what is happening in the rest of the United States.

She also talks about her own experience with Coronavirus, (COVID-19), and how it also affected her husband and young son

Join us for the next 1 hour and 40 minutes where you’ll be truly captivated in what Helen has to tell us.

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In this addition of the Kiwi and the emu,Episode 35, It is when we have the second part of our two part interview with Dr Bronwen Scott.

Bronwen is an orientation and mobility specialist and also works in the field of cortical vision impairment.

Bronwyn also shared with us her experiences working with people both before and during the recent COVID-19 lockdowns in Melbourne and around Australia.

In this episode, Bronwyn goes into the more commonly known aspects of orientation and mobility and how that changed for her during the recent lockdowns.

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In this addition of the Kiwi and the emu,Episode 34, It is both our first two part episode and Elise does an outside Broadcast from the beach at Dromana and takes a walk along the cafe and restaurant strip. Using her make-believe futuristic Apple Watch, she then teleports back to the porch at Mumma Kazz’s place to continue the Interview where Carolyn and her speak with Dr Bronwen Scott who is an orientation and mobility specialist and also works in the field of cortical vision impairment.

Bronwyn also shared with us her experiences working with people both before and during the recent COVID-19 lockdowns in Melbourne and around Australia.

In the second part of this interview, Bronwyn goes into the more commonly known aspects of orientation and mobility and how that changed for her also during the recent lockdowns. That comes up in our next episode which will be episode 35 and part 2 of this discussion.

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In this addition of the Kiwi and the emu,Episode 33, We travel to Palmerston North New Zealand and speak with Dr Jonathan Godfrey, National president of blind citizens New Zealand and a lecturer in statistics at Massey University.

Jonathan loves talking about his hobby farm, he shares with us many fun anecdotes around how they had to do things different on the farm.

Jonathan also shares with us how the stage 4 lockdown affected him and his family back in March and April 2020.

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In this addition of the Kiwi and the emu,Episode 32, We travel to Melbourne’s north west and talk to Kate and Joshua Grogan. Kate is the supporting Mum and Josh is our first school aged student to appear as a guest on our show.

As you can imagine, there are certain challenges as a vision impaired student in their first year at high school. So, adding the challenges of being homeschooled and surviving the COVID-19 lockdowns in Victoria makes for a very interesting conversation.

Josh talks about his technology, the support he gets from both his mother and support person at school, his vision impairment and how this affects his learning and research skills.

Despite the challenges, Josh enjoys good marks at school and enjoys learning.

Don't forget to stay tuned for the lighter moment section but with Josh and his Mum, the whole show is a lot of fun, so please enjoy.

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