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Author outlines research into blindness, Braille and assistive technology used to shape her novel's blind protagonist
Summary
At a Missoula reading, author Jeanette described interviewing teachers and students, visiting the Montana School for the Blind and Deaf, and learning braille, orientation and mobility techniques and assistive technology to ensure accuracy in her novel's portrayal of blindness.
Jeanette described the specific research she did to portray a blind protagonist in her novel Mandy, saying she interviewed teachers and people with lived experience and visited institutions that serve people who are blind or have low vision.
"One of the first people I went to was a man named Fred Bischoff here in Missoula who used to teach orientation and mobility to blind people," Jeanette said, crediting Bischoff and other teachers,…
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