Lizzie Eastham and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

On this week’s show

"When I Grow Up, with Belinda Wilson"

What are you going to do when you grow up?

Do the expectations, positive or negative, of family; friends and our support network in general affect what we do with our lives?

Lizzie and Sam are joined by Vision Australia’s own Belinda Wilson to talk about learned helplessness and how the expectations, or lack of expectations from significant people in the lives of people with a disability can impact an entire lifestyle.

Studio 1 welcomes any input from our listeners. If you have any experience or thoughts about issues covered in this episode or believe there is something we should be talking about.

EMAIL: studio1@visionaustralia.org or leave comment on the station’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/VARadioNetwork

Thank you to: Anthony, Emma, Lily; Shaun; Maddy and Alex

This program was made possible with support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation. Find out more at https://cbf.org.au/

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lizzie Eastham and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

On this week’s show

"Work!”

What do you do for a living? This is often the start of a conversation; however, the workforce creates challenges for People with a Vision Impairment.

Lizzie and Sam talk to six Blind and Vision Impaired people about their empierces looking for work and navigating a workplace environment.

Studio 1 welcomes any input from our listeners. If you have any experience or thoughts about issues covered in this episode or believe there is something we should be talking about.

EMAIL: studio1@visionaustralia.org or leave comment on the station’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/VARadioNetwork

Thank you to: Anthony, Emma, Lily; Shaun; Maddy and Alex

This program was made possible with support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation. Find out more at https://cbf.org.au/

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lizzie Eastham and Sam Rickard present Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

On this week’s show

"Taxi II: Another Ride?”

With the much-vaunted changes to the 13 Cabs app, has it really made any difference?

Lizzie and Sam are joined by Kelly Schulz from knowable me to pick apart reality from spin; good intentions from pragmatism; and ask where we go from here?

Studio 1 welcomes any input from our listeners. If you have any experience or thoughts about issues covered in this episode or believe there is something we should be talking about.

EMAIL: studio1@visionaustralia.org or leave comment on the station’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/VARadioNetwork

A special thanks to Kelly Schulz (Knowable Me: https://knowable.me/)

Extra special thanks to Emma Myers from Powerd Media for letting us use her interview (find the article here: https://powerd.media/news/taxi-service-enforces-zero-tolerance-on-drivers-refusing-assistance-animals

This program was made possible with support from the Community Broadcasting Foundation. Find out more at https://cbf.org.au/

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.