Lately, I’ve been trying out some of the Alexa Skill Blueprints to create custom Amazon Alexa skills, and I was excited to find a skill to customize for navigating my dorm with Amazon Alexa. For many people with visual impairments, it can be helpful to…

As a college student with chronic illness, I have learned a lot about how to schedule college classes and how to create the best college schedule. Many of my friends come to me every semester with a list of their required classes and ask me…

I live with a disability and chronic illness along with multiple allergies, so being able to quickly locate and provide medical information to medical staff or first responders is very important to me when I am receiving medical care. One of my favorite tools for…

While living on campus with low vision and chronic illness, I shared a bathroom and communal living space with 1-3 other girls, depending on the dorm. In many cases, I was the first person that used a blindness cane or that had a physical disability…

During the last few semesters of college, my disability and chronic illness made it difficult for me to walk to classes on my own. Even with the use of guides and mobility aids, I would often show up to class exhausted, since I had used…

Every semester, I always seem to have some sort of medical issue that ends up causing me to miss a couple of assignments or classes. Some of these medical issues are short term and resolve themselves quickly, while others can cause me to miss weeks…

When I was in middle school, I developed photophobia, also referred to as light sensitivity or a sensitivity to bright lights. I would come home from school almost crying due to eye pain from being around fluorescent lights all day, and started layering non-prescription sunglasses…

Ten ways to identify prescription and over the counter medication for people with vision impairments, with no-tech and high-tech assistive technology options available

How to transfer to a virtual class partially through the year or at the mid-year mark from a traditional classroom environment. Great for students with IEPs, 504 plans, or other emergency situations.

Visiting Christmas and holiday light displays with migraines, epilepsy, and similar photosensitive conditions.

How I reduced the amount of bruises I got from running into objects, using Pillow Pets stuffed animals. Great orientation and mobility hack!

Taking exams when you’re sick, because food poisoning and the flu don’t care if you have exams

Should you mention your disability when applying to college? Here’s how I did it, and got into my top choice college

Walking the halls of high school with an immobilizing leg brace- great for students with short and long term injuries and conditions

Phrases that describe what it’s like living with Chiari Malformation