On this page you will find links to all English language topics, such as my story about my experiences as a child during the Second World War, my booklet "A perfect Sight", portraying a blind Arubian, published in 1982 and papers presented at conferences and articles I wrote for Caribbean Vision, a monthly magazine of the Caribbean Council for the Blind. During three years I was the editor of that magazine, a position that implied that I had to fill it almost entirely by myself alone.
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- The following link tells my experiences as a child
during the Second World War.
- The following link gives the text of a booklet
I wrote in 1982 portraying a blind Arubian.
The following is a brief list of famous visually handicapped persons.
- The following is the slightly altered text of an
address delivered at the Second International Sym-
posium on Visually Handicapped Infants and Young
Children, Birth to Seven, held in Aruba from May
22 to 27 1983.
The author/presenter was a memberof the program committee of the Symposium and chair-
person of the Aruban Organizing Committee. He al-
so presided the opening session and pronounced the
closing remarks.
The Most Persistent Lie on Earth.
- The following link is the slightly altered text
of a paper, presented by me at the First Regional
Conference on Blindness and Blindness Prevention
of the Caribbean Council for the Blind, in Christ-
church, Barbados, September 1984.
From Charity to Collective Responsibility.
- The following link is the slightly altered text
of an address delivered at the Joint Caribbean Con-
gress on Disability and Rehabilitation held in San
Juan, Puerto Rico in August 1985.
Whose Rights are the Right Rights?
- the following link gives the text of an article
published by me in Caribbean Vision, a monthly ma-
gazine from the Caribbean Council for the Blind,
of which I was the editor.
- The following is another article published in
Caribbean Vision, which caused quite a bit of ill
feelings in Jamaica.
- The following article, also from Caribbean Vi-
sion, discusses the problems of good outreach.
- The following short piece discusses negative
attitudes of rehab workers for the visually handi-
capped.
- The following article was written after a lot
of protest was launched against the appointment of
a sighted woman as executive director of the CCB.
- The following article discusses the abuse some
blind persons make of their handicap.
The Advantage of the Disadvantage.
- Another article from Caribbean Vision, discus-
sing the main goals of agencies for the blind and
visually impaired.
Services to the Blind, or Prevention of Blindness
- The following article from Caribbean Vision dis-
cusses the differences between the congenitally
and adventitiously blind and partially sighted.
Integrated education, an endless challenge!
- The following is a brief explanation of the
British Moon-script for the blind, that still seems
to be in use in England.
The British Moon-script explained.