Knitting in the dark: narratives about the experience of sight loss in a counselling context

In: British journal of visual impairment: BJVI, Band 26, Heft 3, S. 269-278

Abstract

This report seeks to demonstrate how the telling of stories both within a counselling and research setting enables people to reconnect with strengths and abilities that `enable' rather than `disable' and how, by resisting disabling practices and medical models of understanding, people can find new ways of identifying themselves outside the labels of `visually impaired' and `blind'.