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In episode 1 of the Two Journeys to Employment, Kat Wilke shares her inspiring journey from high school to becoming a speech-language pathologist. Diagnosed with Stargardt’s disease in eighth grade, Kat overcame challenges with vision loss by connecting with Minnesota’s State Services for the Blind (SSB), which helped her develop self-advocacy skills and provided vital resources like assistive technology. As a peer educator, Kat shared college tips with other students, fostering a sense of community. She encourages high school students to embrace their unique paths, explore resources, and take pride in their differences. Kat’s story shows how persistence, support, and passion can lead to fulfilling careers and personal growth.
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Two Journeys to Employment: Kat Wilke – Finding Yourself and the Career You Want
Jeff Thompson: Our first of two episodes in two journeys to employment.
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Please welcome Kat Wilke.
Kat Wilke: I hadn’t really had an opportunity to talk to many other people who had the same or even similar experiences as I did. And I was particularly lucky to happen to meet like at least two or three other people who had my exact condition of Stargardts while I was there.
Jeff Thompson: Speech language pathologists.
Kat Wilke: Working with SSB was really helpful in terms of helping me develop that ability to be able to advocate when I needed things or when I needed that support.
Jeff Thompson: Former peer educator at state services for the blind.
Kat Wilke: Everybody has something that they have to do differently or need help with and it’s nothing that anyone should ever feel bad about.
Jeff Thompson: And now here’s Kat Wilke. We hope you enjoy.
Kat Wilke: Take advantage of the resources that you can and that are available to you and it don’t feel guilty about doing that. You know state services for the blind is a great resource out there and they do a lot for people and you’ll be able to give a lot back after you’ve tapped into those resources.
Jeff Thompson: Welcome to Blind Abilities. I’m Jeff Thompson. Today in the studio we have a former peer educator from state services for the blind of Minnesota. Kat Wilke.
Kat, welcome to Blind Abilities.
Kat Wilke: Thank you so much for having me. It’s great to be here.
Jeff Thompson: So glad to have you here Kat. Can you tell us a little bit about what is a peer educator and what was your experience like?
Kat Wilke: Yeah, oh that was a really really good experience and I had the opportunity to do it during the summer, the first summer of COVID. So it was when things were kind of all up in the air anyway and it was just good timing to have that as a summer job. What we did is we hosted a lot of these virtual sessions over the summer where we would talk about various topics. Some of them were more focused on like specific training such as like about using different assistive technologies and others were just more like my friend Louie and I held the college 101 course where we just got on there and gave some of our tips about what college was like for us and some helpful suggestions on how you can advocate for yourself and things like that and just opened it up to let people kind of do a Q &A and ask some questions and get some answers.
We had a lot of students who were in high school who attended these virtual sessions. So it was a great opportunity to be able to be part of that and it was also nice. It was the first time that I really had gotten to connect with a group of other blind or visually impaired individuals.
Like I had not ever done any of like the camps or anything where you go away to lighthouse or any of that. I hadn’t really had an opportunity to talk to many other people who had the same or even similar experiences as I did and I was particularly lucky to happen to meet like at least two or three other people who had my exact condition of Stargardts while I was there too. So there was just a point of connection there that I it was like something I didn’t even know I was missing but that it was really refreshing to get to have some of those conversations with other people who kind of could relate and could talk about similar struggles.
A lot of people I think try to understand what you’re going through even if they don’t have vision loss themselves but it’s really hard to know what it’s like until you have it yourself. It’s just a whole different kind of experience. So on both sides of that whether you want to be a peer educator or get involved by being part of the sessions that the peer educators host it’s just a really good way to connect and also further your skills.
Jeff Thompson: Yeah such a great way to meet other people who have the same or similar eye conditions as you. So Kat why don’t you tell the listeners a little bit about who is Kat Wilke?
Kat Wilke: Yeah well I am a Minnesota girl born and raised. I grew up kind of in Central Minnesota.
I’m currently a speech language therapist working in the Rochester School District in Southern Minnesota. I identify as legally blind slash low vision because I have kind of a different sort of visual situation where I have some usable vision. I have a condition called Stargardt’s disease which is a progressive retinal dystrophy that causes progressive vision loss and so it mostly affects my central vision. So because of that things in detail are really difficult for me to see.
I can usually get the general gist of what’s in or around me but seeing anything in detail is really difficult and then in addition to that there are these blind spots in my vision that sometimes can make things seem to kind of disappear completely until I kind of shift my eyes around and then they might reappear.
But I grew up actually with pretty normal vision up until about eighth grade so I was fully sighted for those first few years of my life and then the onset of Stargardt’s happened around the age of 13 or 14 and it was kind of a whole process to figure out exactly what was going on.
It was lots of different doctors and specialists later that I finally figured out what it was and were able to get me connected with state services for the blind and the visual specialists in my school district to help me get going.
But that’s kind of how I got to where I am today. I do think that it is a part of me. I had the person once describe it as my superpower and I would have to agree with that. I do think that there are a lot of ways in which having a disability or having some of the experiences that you do as a person with a disability help kind of shape you into who you are and so when I look back on that I do see that that’s helped me become the person that I am today.
Jeff Thompson: I can relate. I have android streaks where I don’t have central vision so I was going to give you a thumbs up so I would hold it off to the side.
Kat Wilke: Thank you.
Jeff Thompson: Another thing is I sometimes find myself staring into the void what I don’t see and if I’m on a bus or something like that I have to remember to move my eyes to make sure that I’m not just staring at someone. I bet you can relate to situations like that.
Kat Wilke: Oh yeah or sometimes like the first way that I kind of found out that I knew that my central vision was affected but what I didn’t realize is that I’ve started to compensate for that by that I don’t look directly at things that a lot of times my eyes are kind of shifted off to the side and the first way that really made me realize that is when I started working with kiddos as a speech therapist and my kids would be like who are you looking at?
Jeff Thompson: Looking over their shoulder.
Kat Wilke: Right like I think I’m looking at them and they’re like you’re making me think there’s like someone behind me or someone in the window because they’re like who are you staring at?
So that was a very big like oh yeah I started just naturally compensating in that way and it wasn’t until I got to love the honesty of kids to let you know what’s actually happening.
Jeff Thompson: Oh listening to you is really neat because I don’t get to meet too many people that have central vision that’s missing so it’s really cool. So what are the job details of a speech pathologist?
Kat Wilke: Yeah I get to work with kiddos who have a wide range of different communication difficulties so a lot of times people hear speech therapists and we think of just like working on speech sounds like you’re working on making your Rs or your THs and that is definitely part of what I do. I have many students who that is the only thing that we’re working on.
What a lot of people don’t realize is that there’s actually a very broad scope to the things that I can work on with students so it’s not only speech sounds but also all areas of language from everything from understanding and using vocabulary and grammar to some of those social language skills of understanding inferences and idioms and non-literal language things like that as well as fluency so for someone who has a stutter for example that would be somebody that I could work with to help give them some strategies to feel more comfortable speaking and then a population that I absolutely just probably one of my favorites to work with is my AAC users which are students who use augmentative and alternative communication systems such as an iPad that generates speech to communicate and I would say that that is probably one of the most rewarding parts of the jobs is getting to be there when kids get to use words to communicate for the first time intentionally and meaningfully and with a system that gives them access to do that and it really is such a privilege to get to be there for those moments and get to be part of their progress and their journey so that is kind of the overarching part of that and then within that it’s everything from doing evaluations and testing to help kids qualify to get the services and then of course actually providing those services.
Jeff Thompson: Wow I can only imagine.
Kat Wilke: Yeah.
Jeff Thompson: So Kat during the hiring process with the Rochester School District how did you explain your disability or should I say low vision and how you were going to fulfill the job duties?
Kat Wilke: Yeah so I actually appreciate you saying that part of my both my personal and professional passion is to help break down the stigma around disability and so part of the way that I do that in my professional life is like when I went in for the interview process is I’m very open about the fact that I do have a disability. I do use that word I know that it kind of depends on the person of whether you’re comfortable using that word or not.
For me I just find it’s just very honest but I own it and I don’t see it as something to be ashamed of or something to be afraid of. I just go in there kind of saying like I have a vision disability I do things a little bit differently.
I’m still able to do the job here are the ways that I can do it and here are the kinds of support that would help me be able to do this job and I kind of use that too to tie in of why this is such a passion for me to work with other students who also have difficulties or disabilities is that I would love to be able to empower them to also not feel ashamed ever of who they are and not be afraid to do things differently or to need a little extra help that there’s nothing wrong with that.
So that’s usually a whole talking point that I incorporate into my interview so that I’m just honest straightforward with it from the beginning and also giving them the opportunity then too to ask me questions if they have things that they because you know employers I think sometimes get a little nervous about whether or not they can provide the things that you might need so I always want them to feel comfortable to having it more of an open dialogue where we can talk back and forth and problem solve together because sometimes it’s just a matter of not knowing what’s out there that they just might not know ways that can help me or devices that can help me and then I can help answer those questions and speak for my own experience to help them know what’s going to work best for me and how this will help me do my job.
So during the interview process that’s how I go about that and then when it came to actually starting my job in the district I just again very open I met with my principal and our other district leaders and just kind of again explain the situation that you know I do things a little bit differently here is what I need to be successful and for the most part I would say I’ve had no pushback on that.
Jeff Thompson: That’s awesome. So Kat what kind of assistive technology do you use on a daily basis?
Kat Wilke: Yeah a whole lot. So I use everything from a laptop with magnification software and text read aloud software to a handheld video magnifier called a ruby that you can use on different sheets of paper to an iPad where I can take pictures of things and blow them up really really big so that I can see them and then more recently something that state services for the blind actually helped me kind of play around with finding the right fit for me but I was able to get a transportable CCTV that I can bring between work and home so that I can do some parts of my job that are difficult like for example when I’m testing we have specific record forms that we have to use that are very standardized and don’t come in large print and so what I usually do is when I’m testing I have made an accommodated form for myself so that I can give the test efficiently but then I go back and on the actual record form transfer my data over after the fact and the CCTV makes that so much easier than I used to do it with just the ruby and that would take a very long time and so now being able to write under and see it at the same time under the CCTV has been super helpful so those are just a few examples a lot of a lot of technology is what I use.
Jeff Thompson: Oh yeah those CCTVs use to be big big boxes but now the collapsible transportable that’s sweet.
Kat Wilke: Yes.
Jeff Thompson: Okay you mentioned SSB so I’m going to take you back a little bit when did you start receiving services from SSB?
Kat Wilke: Yeah so I think around my ninth grade year when I initially started going through losing my vision and stuff it was towards like the middle to end of eighth grade by the time I got into ninth grade I was like I think one of their first visually impaired students so it was a new process for them too they were also learning but they connected me with the visual specialist for the district and then she was able to get us in touch with state services for the blind and so my services started in ninth grade when the great Stephen Larson shout out to him he was my first SSB counselor and he would come to my school and have meetings to help me with understanding kind of where things could go beyond high school.
Jeff Thompson: Oh wow I mean we just jumped into you accepting your blindness all that stuff especially at that age that must have been tough.
Kat Wilke: Yeah and I’ll be honest the first at least first year it was not easy I did go through kind of a period of depression just trying to adjust to everything it was just hard kind of having to like there was a period of time where I had been led to believe by one of my doctors that my vision was going to return and when I realized through another specialist with more education and more knowledge on my condition that that wasn’t going to happen I think I really kind of hit a weird place of like this is going to really change how things are going to go for me going forward and so that you know it’s a lot to to deal with at that age and then of course it didn’t help too a lot of my peers had known me as a fully sighted person and then you know all of a sudden they’re seeing that I need all these accommodations and stuff at school but I’m not wearing glasses so there’s a lot of like accusations about you know are you faking this are you pretending and that was really hard to deal with too.
I think I still carry a little bit of that insecurity from that time period but I was able to get through that time with the support of my family in particular my mom she was my greatest advocate and she told me once she’s like you know it’s okay to be upset about this and it’s okay to let yourself be sad about this sometimes but don’t stay there and that really stuck with me and I think once I kind of realized like yep this is something that I need to be able to grieve and be sad about when you know when I need that but that I also might like it’s not like my life is over you know I there’s still more that I can do and it’s just going to be a learning curve so I kind of just took on the mentality of like challenge accepted.
I’m going to move forward and things sometimes are not going to be easy but I’m ready for it let’s do it.
Jeff Thompson: Always a journey with SSB transitioning into college.
Kat Wilke: It was pretty, pretty nice having their support along the way because they had always been very open about you know we will support you when you get into college. And our goal is to help make sure that you are successful out in higher education and then in the workforce.
Stephen Larson always phrased it. I thought this was so cute. He would phrase it as, you know, we are investing in you because you’re going to go out and go into the workforce and then you’ll be able to contribute in a way that comes background to us because they are a government funded agency.
So I always appreciated that because I really felt like they had a vested interest in making sure that you were successful and had what you needed to be successful.
So they gave me a lot of guidance on, you know, what kind of accommodations I would need and what is out there in terms of the assistive technology that’s available.
He was the one who introduced me to things like the Ruby and the CCTV and using canes and things like that, which it took me a while to agree to get a cane finally. But I’m glad I did a little later in life.
So they just helped kind of get all of that set up so that by the time I got into college, I had knowledge of what worked for me in high school and also what other things were out there that could work for me. And I also came out of that with really good self advocacy skills. That was something that I was not good at the beginning and that I definitely was an area of growth for me for several years. But working with SSB was really helpful in terms of helping me develop that ability to be able to advocate when I needed things or when I needed that support.
Jeff Thompson: Especially at college, when you go in there, you don’t get to bring your support system that you had in high school.
Kat Wilke: Yes.
Jeff Thompson: I’m thinking, boy, that was right around the driver’s license time too.
Kat Wilke: Yeah. Yep. That was another part of that grief process, right? Yeah.
All of my friends are doing their pre-license driving where they were going and doing that with their parents and then getting their licenses. So yeah, there were definitely some moments like that again where you revisit it. It’s like they say with the grief cycle too that it’s not linear.
It’s more circular. And so there are still times to this day where you think about certain things and you kind of are like, yep, this, this, it sucks to be honest. Like there are things about it that just are unfortunate and are annoying to deal with. And at the same time, again, I have ways that I can still be successful. It’s not something that’s going to stop me from living my life. So it’s finding that balance because there are definitely times like that when other people are able to do things that you’re like, this should have been a normal part of my teenage life and it’s something that’s just not going to look the same for me. But that, you know, you’ll get through it.
Jeff Thompson: Yeah, that’s good to hear. I mean, you’ve done well. You’ve graduated high school, graduated college, and then you went on to a master’s degree.
Kat Wilke: Yes.
Jeff Thompson: What led you to speech pathologists? What led you to that field? Where’d you get that idea?
Kat Wilke: Sure. So I didn’t even know that that was a field. I always knew that I wanted to do something in the realm of special education. Actually, even before I developed a disability myself and lost my vision, my mom was a special led teacher and growing up, sometimes I would get to go with her, you know, if I had a day off from school, but they still had school and session in the district that she worked in, I would tag along with her and get to work with some of her students.
And I think just really developed, started developing that passion for working with kids who do things differently and being able to be part of their journey and helping them and learning from them too.
Gosh, I learned all sorts of things now as well for my students. So I would go and shadow her. And then when I developed my own vision loss, I that even just further fueled the fire for me of like, yep, I want to go into a helping field where I can go and help others. And especially now having understood what it’s like to face some barriers or have to do things differently.
I felt like it gave me an even better perspective going into that. I did not know about speech language therapy until it was either like towards the end of my high school or maybe early college years. And I had shadowed my mom and she had a friend in the school who was a speech pathologist and she’s like, Hey, why don’t you go and shadow her for a few hours of the day? And so I was like, Yep, sure, why not?
Like, I’ll go do that.
And I think what appealed to me so much about that was watching her work with the students. It was that combination of the education teaching part, but then also like this therapeutic sciency part of it too, that just the combination of those two things just really intrigued me. And so it wasn’t that I didn’t like special education because I was definitely interested in that as well.
But I just was more in love with the specialized field of speech language pathology. And so in college, I kind of realized that a little too late to get my undergrad degree in it. So I actually got my undergraduate degrees in human services and in sociology.
And then my graduate school program was an extra year for me. Usually you do a four year bachelor’s in communication sciences and then you go on for a two year graduate degree. I did three years in undergrad and then three years of grad school.
And that extra year of grad school is to help get all those prerequisites that you would have gotten in your undergrad years. So I did it a little bit differently, a little unconventional compared to what other people did.
But I don’t regret it at all. In fact, I think in a lot of ways my human services and sociology background are super helpful in the work that I do with my kids. So I do not regret that at all. And then once I got into grad school, it was like every time we learned something or got to start working with clients and students, the more I would do it, the more I was like, yep, this is what I want to do. This is what I could see myself doing for a very long time.
Jeff Thompson: Wow, that has to be a great feeling.
Kat Wilke: Yeah, thanks.
Jeff Thompson: You got a career, not just a job.
Kat Wilke: Exactly, yes. And it can be exhausting. I mean, there are times where you put in so much time and energy and it takes a lot out of you. And at the same time, I absolutely love what I do. Working with my students is what keeps me going every day. Like I said, I could see myself doing this for probably the rest of my life.
I don’t imagine that I’ll probably change careers because I just I really, really love this work.
Jeff Thompson: Well, you said it early on. It was like that feeling I could feel my heart pound just a little bit when someone for the first time can communicate words, you know, through the iPad, through some device. You probably see them get their Rs out correctly.
Kat Wilke: Yep.
Jeff Thompson: Yeah, you get to work directly with people and get those direct results and measurable outcomes. That’s awesome.
Kat Wilke: Yeah. And I think too, getting to see the kids, they’re proud of themselves when they start to hear it too. You know, when they can say, oh, I just made my R. You know, the student, when they’re finally communicating with their device for the first time and they see that there is cause effect, I press this button to communicate this thing and now I have what I wanted.
You can just see that it makes them happy. It makes them excited and feel that sense of pride. And I just I I want all people to get to have that.
And I just feel so grateful to be able to be even just a small part of that.
Jeff Thompson: Yeah, especially at that age, because other kids might pick on them or be bullied a little bit because they can’t or they stutter or something. So you get to help them with that. And then they get to go out and test it and improve.
Kat Wilke: Yes.
Jeff Thompson: So down in Rochester, how do you get to work? Do you have to go in or is it virtual? Do you travel by bus, plane, ship?
Kat Wilke: Plane, oh man, wouldn’t that be something? I do take the public bus system here. That was something when I was job searching that, you know, Rochester checked the criteria for me for. I wanted to be somewhere that had decent public transportation so that I could get around independently. I’m able to live and work here completely independently on my own and get to work that way.
Now, their system here is pretty good. I am hoping that they will continue to expand as I live here because currently the school that I work at in particular, which Rochester is pretty big. So there are a lot of schools. But the one that I work at in particular, there’s only one bus route that goes out that far and it only runs on weekdays and it only runs from like a certain span of hours in the morning and a certain span of hours in the evening.
So thankfully it works really well with my work schedule, but I don’t live in the same part of town that I work in because if I did, I’d be cut off from everything on the weekend. And the walk from the bus stop to the school can still be a little sketchy at times. It’s downhill about like, I think it’s technically like 0.2 miles or something. It doesn’t feel as long as it sounds, but it’s there’s a hill there and it definitely makes it a little tricky. So usually I’ll take the regular bus system, but there is also a Paratransit service in town that I have signed up for and used on occasion when the weather has been bad. Because again, with that hill, when it’s like icy and dark and gross out, I’m just not willing to chance breaking something, trying to attempt going down that hill. So in that case, I would take the Paratransit, which drops off door to door.
Jeff Thompson: It’s nice that you do have a bus system for the weekdays. That’s that’s awesome.
Kat Wilke: Yes. And they do have weekend buses. They just don’t run out to that side of town.
Jeff Thompson: Oh, I know the feeling. I’m in a suburb and come weekends. That bus may come every two and a half hours. I don’t know. So you have to do everything in this little window or you’ve got to find something else to do for another two hours.
Kat Wilke: Oh, yes. The amount of planning when you’re on a bus schedule, you get really good at making sure that you plan. And when you’re doing errands, you pack everything in as much as you can to make sure that you’re making good use of your time for that exact reason.
Jeff Thompson: So what advice would you give to someone who’s in high school as they’re looking out towards their career? I mean, you’ve done this journey. What advice would you have for their journey?
Kat Wilke: Yeah, that’s a really great question. I’m like thinking back to my my little high school self and what I would say. I think a big thing is for one thing again, to just be able to accept yourself and know that please do not ever apologize or feel ashamed of doing things differently or needing some extra help. Everybody has something that they have to do differently or need help with and it’s nothing that anyone should ever feel bad about. I would say too, like, don’t be afraid to step out of your comfort zone and try things. Sometimes it’s going to be hard and it’s you’re going to make mistakes and you’ll learn from that and that’s OK. That’s all part of the life process. And if you don’t try it, you’ll just never know.
I would just say like be open to exploring lots of different things. Lean into your support system that you have, whoever that is for you and take advantage of the resources that you can and that are available to you and it don’t feel guilty about doing that. You know, state services for the blind is a great resource out there and they do a lot for people and you’ll be able to give a lot back after you’ve tapped into those resources. So please don’t be afraid to use those.
Trying to think of what else?
Jeff Thompson: That’s pretty dang good.
Kat Wilke: OK. I was like, you know, my type A personality here, I’m like, I got to think of every single thing I would ever tell somebody. But yeah, that probably sums it up, though, of just kind of some of those those big things. Yeah.
Jeff Thompson: So Kat, do you have any hobbies?
Kat Wilke: I do. Recently, I have gotten back into a hobby that I used to have a lot when I was growing up, which is to play the piano. I loved playing the piano as a kid and I I’ve always played it by ear. Even before losing my vision, I’ve always joked that even even with full sight, I could not read sheet music to save my life.
But I could listen to something and then figure it out on the piano and be able to imitate it. And just really that was something that I enjoyed doing. And it was fun for me when I got into like later high school into college. I just didn’t have access to piano anymore. So it wasn’t that I lost interest in it.
I just didn’t have access to play anymore. So I went through a few years where I kind of drifted away from that hobby. But then recently I just got an electric keyboard and have gotten back into it. So I love being able to play the piano and try out some new things with that.
In addition to that, I like to like listen to different kinds of podcasts and audio books. Then I went through the whole phase where I read like all the Harry Potter books and all the Lord of the Rings books, which have been more of a later in life development for me. Those were not books that I had ever dreamed of reading in middle or high school, not because of the vision loss, but because I just at that time thought I didn’t like reading. And I think for me, I just didn’t find the right thing to read. So as an adult, I’ve been catching up on all those those great things that I probably would have liked at that time and just had never found.
But so yeah, lots of reading, lots of podcasts. I’ve also gotten into like rebounding lately on like a little trampoline, which is great. I love going for walks and stuff, but this time of year gets tricky to do stuff like that.
So it was good to find an alternative that I could be indoors.
Jeff Thompson: Rebounding?
Kat Wilke: Rebounding. Yep. Like on a basically jumping on a trampoline.
Jeff Thompson: Oh, OK. I was thinking like it ran into a wall where a trampoline was like a bomb. I was thinking of rebounding.
Kat Wilke: No, not.
Jeff Thompson: OK, bouncing.
Kat Wilke: It just bouncing. Sorry.
Jeff Thompson: It’s great that you’re getting into that stuff. I always like to know what people do outside of work, you know, work, work, work. And I also like that when we set up this time, you had to do it after work.
Kat Wilke: Yeah. Well, and I appreciate your flexibility on that too, because I definitely, like I said, I put a lot of time and energy into my job and I love it. And work definitely follows me home. So I don’t have a ton of downtime usually. But the time that I do have, I like to make the most of. And I was really appreciative that you had time in the evening because I was like, that will work perfect. That I can just make this more of my focus.
I’m not having to worry about like getting back to something or being out of super strict timeline or anything like that.
Jeff Thompson: Cutting into your rebounding.
Kat Wilke: Yeah, right. Exactly.
Jeff Thompson: Well, Kat, thank you so much for sharing. Just listening to you. You’d be a great speaker to talk about your journey anywhere and people would really gain from it. So I’m glad people are going to be able to listen to your journey that you shared with us.
Kat Wilke: Thank you so much. And again, thank you for the opportunity to be part of this. It’s just really exciting and something I’ve never gotten to do before. So I really appreciate the chance.
Jeff Thompson: Awesome. Such a great time talking to Kat Wilke and be sure to tune in to our next episode of Two Journeys to Employment, where we’ll be featuring Gabby Gingras.
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