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25.01.2022 A Heart Pricked My heart was pricked; a short, sharp sting My first-born, as I looked at him Would not, in turn, behold my face... My gaze of love, he would not trace It’s true, there was a heartfelt ache This path of life I would now take The ache did not, though, linger long But late in time, return in song The latter song of long lament Came with fever, a nightmare sent And seizures; vacant, empty gaze Salivate, then sleep for days Lamenting long, and spent of days To fight for teaching, what a maze! Some would try to empathise But weary soon of compromise And now the sting, it lingers on As time now brings you, your fight song A world not used to other wise Lamenting sting now your sweet prize 4/12/2016 From "The Story of Me" - on https://iamginamarie.com/category/poems/a-heart/

25.01.2022 New website for Eduvis, working toward accessible calculators, supports and resources for students with a vision impairment http://eduvis.com.au/about/#gsc.tab=0

25.01.2022 Friend of one of my daughter’s, great service for our kids. If you sighties (perhaps educators in particular) would like to see what the ‘Expanded Core Curriculum’ is, here you go https://svrc.vic.edu.au/about/the-expanded-core-curriculum/

23.01.2022 Reflecting on my first-born https://insight-out-au.com/2017/01/03/a-heart-pricked/

22.01.2022 New post, pondering the pressures of adapting, modifying and adjusting at this time https://insight-out-au.com/2020/04/11/adaptation/

20.01.2022 Doing some writing and was reminded of this...hope it finds you where your need is today https://insight-out-au.com//experience-has-taught-us-thin/

20.01.2022 Perhaps these could also be used to inform your local minister... https://www.ponderingvision.com.au/page10.html https://www.ponderingvision.com.au/page11.html

16.01.2022 Using Alternate Text on your images

16.01.2022 I know not everyone following this page has an NDIS plan or live in Australia but..just want to emphasise again the definition of an Assistive Technology Assess...or - they are not just OTs. What is an Assistive Technology assessor? An Assistive Technology assessor is someone who is able to consider your individual support needs and situation to identify appropriate equipment items and/or Home Modifications to meet your support needs. They "may" be an Occupational Therapist, Physiotherapist, Speech Pathologist, Psychologist or rehabilitation engineer. Identifying the most appropriate Assistive Technology assessor will depend on your individual support needs and the Assistive Technology and/or Home Modifications required. For all Specialised (Level 3) and Complex (level 4) Assistive Technology you will need assistance from a suitably qualified Assistive Technology assessor to help you identify, source and safely use your Assistive Technology supports. You will have funding included in your NDIS plan under the Capacity Building budget which you can access to select a suitably qualified Assistive Technology assessor to: trial the Assistive Technology to ensure it is a best fit for your individual support needs and it is used correctly and safely. recommend appropriate Assistive Technology for your individual support needs provide a recommendation report (including quotes) to be submitted to the NDIA assist you to select and buy your Assistive Technology once the funding has been approved set up and/or training in how to use the Assistive Technology equipment items.

16.01.2022 Three young people using their long canes

15.01.2022 How did you feel, when your child brought you a new 'normal'? A Heart Squeezed Revisit a potential loss... To manage, will expect of course With loss confirmed, it’s no surprise This time ready, more the wise Feeding fast, though sleep eludes Enthusiasm, but holding wounds No praising, hugging, teaching for This one, will even any score Assured of self, from day of birth At home assured of all her worth But other’s insecurities and need for all conformity Will squeeze, compress my heart with ease To know your value and your worth While others doubt, you yourself birth Your own heart knows compression’s squeeze As stifled, thwarted you’ll not be pleased 4/12/2016 Gina Marie https://insight-out-au.com/2017/01/04/a-heart-squeezed/

14.01.2022 Sun rising through the branches of a great gum tree, gentleman walking beneath

12.01.2022 Do you and I choose people to be part of our group, family, club, organisation, church...? Do you and I continue to make that choice daily; over our lifetime; with the same person/people; for the entire season we share with someone/some people? Do you and I forget people, cease to choose them?... Do you, do I, offer others the actual opportunity of a sense of belonging? Do you and I seek to find out what would feel like belonging to someone else? Do you and I let others know what belonging would feel like to me? Let us take to heart what my professor, Benjamin Conner, writes, a full sense of belonging requires one’s being chosen https://www.lauracrobb.com/common-obstacles-to-belonging/

12.01.2022 'They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.' Tom Bodett Emma's... on her way, how are you going? You can see and hear all The Lives We Lead stories here http://waindividualisedservices.org.au/the-lives-we-lead/

11.01.2022 From the SPEVI conference 2020, Adelaide Australia Champions A knight will champion ... His liege’s cause And so we need crusaders Who go to battle March on the walls The battlement, overtakers You’ve crumbled walls Built bridges tall Overreaching troubled waters The scaffold now We climb aboard To extend the reach you bought us And so we follow knights of old Who’ve fought to bring together Those left behind Who now may find Connection through this tether 15/1/2020 Gina Marie On the occasion of Phia Damsma receiving her Knighthood from the King of the Netherlands

08.01.2022 Shared by a friend who is an O&M instructor and guide dog user

07.01.2022 New post, and new website almost ready!

07.01.2022 A new Story of me post coming soon...hear a the couple already written https://insight-out-au.com/category/the-story-of-me/

06.01.2022 Things Things I can no longer do Things you wont allow me to Things I know I’ve done before... Things of which I’m now, not sure Places I have lived and moved Places bringing sweet soul-soothe Places unfamiliar, new Places strange I go with you Names and faces everywhere Names that bring a memory fair Names which used to fit in time Names of those who once were mine My soul is floating fettered to My anchor, firm, which cannot move My view when lifted by this storm My mind cannot define its form Things were planned before my time Places set in boundaries mine Names and faces I have loved My soul will fly to home above 18/4/2019 Gina Marie

06.01.2022 From the SPEVI conference 2020, Adelaide Australia SPEVI Daze Days a-filled with knowledge broad... A rolling wave, informing The researcher, teacher, parent bow To thrust the child and student forward A forward journey, target bound Of arrow formed and ready To launch from varied places trod Next steps in each one’s story Day or knight, we ne’er can tell What changes may surprise us But onward ,upward, kindred all Press on and innovate regardless 14/1/2020 Gina Marie

06.01.2022 Bittersweet As certain as a concrete path That leads from here to there A settled end of certainty... Releasing if you dare An ending seems so final Though an end there needs to be An end with questions still unanswered End of long-past misery As tender washes bitterness Aside! Away! Afar! The bitterness of losses Taints the sweetness of the mark A farewell mark in time A fresh begin-again A next step of progression A sweet beginning, bitter end Gina Marie 31/5/209

05.01.2022 I shard this last year. You can often change the alternate text to what you want it to say on images, I’m not sure that it’s possible on all platforms or resources though. This why my photographs have descriptions (and sometimes I forget and go back and do it later ) One of my children says that the risk of only using alternate text is that the sighted (that’s me, and most of you) don’t get to learn to include text with our images. There is also the case of a beautiful piece... of audio (not just music) which is totally inaccessible to some of our friends, colleagues and acquaintances. I just prepared a piece of writing which provided ‘alt text’ for images (which I changed to actually describe the images). I also recorded myself reciting the piece, on top of it’s written form accompanying the images. Something to see, something to read, and something to listen to/have read to you

03.01.2022 Written from the perspective of a child with MDVI or deafblindness, "Include Me" helps us all to hear the voice a child who, like all children, is waiting and wanting to be loved, respected, and included. Have you heard the voice of a child with multiple disabilities or deafblindness? ICEVI has launched INCLUDE ME, a guide to help families, educators and communities support children with multiple disabilities or deafblindness to participate, learn and thrive. Available in 18 languages for download and print at http://icevi.org/include-me-mdvi-deafblindness-publication/.

01.01.2022 At long last, "Little Mouse Finds a House" is now available to purchase. Check out the website.