Vision Extra by Vision Australia Radio
Vision Extra by Vision Australia Radio
Vision Extra is the feature blindness related interview each week, talking to authors, elite sports people, newest technology, high achievers in employment, education or other aspects of life for a person who is blind or has low vision.Social links:
Penny Holmes-Brown
Penny Holmes-Brown is Service Area Manager from APM employment, the winner of this year's Link Vision Blind Australian of the year Employer of Choice Award.
16:09
Courtney Wiebeck
Peter's guest on Vision Extra is Courtney Webeck. Cricketer; Tennis Athlete and student Courtney is the 2024 Blind Australian of the year.
15:21
Haben Girma - Extended Interview Version
This is a special presentation of the interview featured on 25th September edition of Focal Point. Haben Girma, Deafblind Advocate Extraordinaire, is a guest speaker at UNSW Centre of Ideas. Haben is the first Deafblind Harvard Graduate; has been named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 and was award…
25:20
Kelly Schulz
Kelly Schultz is the Founder and Director for knowable.me - a platform to share your thoughts about almost everything; take part in surveys; mystery shopping and product testing. Find out more here: https://knowable.me/
15:10
Ross McGregor
Ross McGregor, talks about NAIDOC week. Ross also tells us how he found about his indigenous heritage at the age of 32
14:09
Paul Brown and Brad Cohen
Paul Brown, from audio described Aotearoa, and Brad Cohen, General Director for New Zealand Opera, with the world's first use of refreshable braille displays for readers to access surtitles for NZ Opera. To find out more go to: https://nzopera.com/whats-on/accessibility/
14:50
Aymen Majeed
Aymen Majeed has just written a book "RP and Me" recounting diagnosis; education; bullying; and now with a family.
14:20
29 May 2024 - Marjorie Anderson
14:40
15 May 2024 - Louise Milligan
Louise Milligan, investigative journalist and author, talked about being at "In Conversation" with the Vision Australia Library for the Melbourne Writers Festival. Louise's book, "Pheasants Nest" is available through the Library. Go to http://www.visionaustralia.org/library
15:05
08 May 2024 - Nihal Ischel
Nihal Iscel was inducted into the Western Australian Women Hall of Fame for her advocacy work. Nihal talked about Global Accessibility Awareness Day and how Instagram has become less accessible - in particular for people who are blind or vision impaired,
15:12