Retinitis Pigmentosa with Lance Johnson
Freewheelin with Carden
English - November 02, 2020 03:15 - 1 hour - 99.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 24 ratingsSociety & Culture Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Retinitis Pigmentosa with Lance Johnson
Transcript https://rb.gy/eakyw0
Who is Lance Johnson?
Lance Kestrel Johnson is a 30 year old transplant from North Carolina, living in Brooklyn, NY where he works as a video editor.
Lance has a degenerative eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which affects his peripheral vision and ability to see at night.
While he currently has most of his central vision, being diagonised with a disability made him interested in the disability comminuty as a whole.
That interest led him to create a podcast called The See-Through Podcast, where he discusses various topics of interest with people from the disability community.
In this episode Lance and Carden talk about:
Lance's first interview on a podcast
Lance's daily life with retinitis pigmentosa
Workplace and event acommodations for those with visual impairments
Normalizing medical equipment and devices ie glasses, wheelchairs
Independent learning about different disabilities
The problem with only getting 1 person's experience with a disability
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Connect with Lance
Instagram:
@lancekestrel @seethroughpod
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