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Mondays with Mike: Itty Bitty Benetti

July 24, 20238 CommentsPosted in Beth Finke, blindness, careers/jobs for people who are blind, guide dogs, Mike Knezovich, Mondays with Mike

Last December, Beth posted here about a couple of children’s books she wrote for a series on disabilities sponsored by Easterseals. She penned two of the books: “What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?” (2nd-5th grades) and “Service Dogs” (3rd grade). They turned out great and besides being distributed by Easterseals chapters and other agencies, […]

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Questions Kids Ask: Does Your Dog Understand English?

May 5, 20238 CommentsPosted in book tour, guide dogs, public speaking, questions kids ask, Seeing Eye dogs, visiting schools, Writing for Children

Last Friday Luna and I presented a special program for third-graders from a school where more than half the students are children of immigrants. Goudy Elementary is located so close to The Admiral at the Lake (a retirement community where I lead weekly memoir-writing classes) that they can walk there. They do exactly that every […]

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Questions Kids Ask: Do you pick your clothes at random?

April 22, 20234 CommentsPosted in blindness, guide dogs, questions kids ask, Seeing Eye dogs, visiting schools

This past Tuesday Seeing Eye dog Luna and I had the honor of visiting third-graders at Oak Terrace Elementary school in Highwood, Illinois to talk about what it’s like to be blind and how service dogs help us get around. Oak Terrace is a Spanish dual language school: students there are provided daily instruction in […]

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Questions Kids Ask: Does it Hurt to be Blind?

November 22, 202216 CommentsPosted in blindness, Braille, guide dogs, questions kids ask, Seeing Eye dogs, travel, visiting schools, writing, Writing for Children

One week ago today I was at Sterling Park Elementary, a dual-language school in Casselberry, Florida giving a presentation to third graders. My eight-year-old great-niece Toots goes to that school, and my sister Cheryl and I had flown from Chicago to Florida a few days earlier to see Toots in a children’s theater performance of […]

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