Villages VIP Support Group
We are a support group for the visually impaired and blind that provides socialization and education to our members and their families.
Vision Awareness Day Expo. Saturday February 22nd,at Eisenhower Recreation Center. Here, below, is the audio by Dr. Tuli and Dr.Chen.
Watch Billy Hall’s YouTube video. Can a blind man navigate with Meta smart glasses?
One group with 2 locations:
Villages VIP meets monthly at Bridgeport and Ezell Rec Centers. Same group -different locations and dates.
There is an upcoming virtual webinar on AMD Thursday, February 27@ 7PM. . Follow this link to register
| For more information, please reach out to Bailey Bostelman at BBostelman@FightingBlindness.org |
Up Next:
The other VIP group meets at Bridgeport on Thursday, February 6 at 1 PM. This month’s speaker will be Dr. John Randolph from the Center for Retina and Macula Diseases. Dr. Randolph was unable to attend. So no audio.
The Ezell VIP group met on Monday, January 20. The presenter was Charles Kanter from Seniors vs Crimes. (audio available)
Last month’s speaker was Dr. Danielle Rosier, audiologist with True Ear Inc.
Newsletter and Audio available
Monthly newsletters for both meeting locations are available on the Newsletter and Audio page. We also have numerous audio files of our guest presenters.
On November 18, Dr. John Randolph talked about retina diseases,Macular Degeneration, and current research.
On October 21, Bob Shefper from the Magnification Company presented information on the newest advances in technology for the vision impaired.
John Corneille was the guest presenter at Ezell on September 16.
You can listen to all these recording on the audio page.
Check out our calendar, upcoming outings, newsletter with audio recordings of the newsletter, and guest speakers from meetings at both locations. There are more links on the Resources page.
There are new audio recordings each month: There is a new page called Audio Potpourri. Just interesting short audio files. The latest is Piercing the Darkness series.
Here is info in a PDF on audio description events coming up at concerts in December.
Plus the VIP Declaration of Independence with audio.
Older content was getting outdated and cluttered, so I made a few housekeeping changes.