Resources

This is the spot to turn to when you are looking for information helpful to the blind, their families, and friends -- or to anyone else interested in helping the blind to expand their opportunities for career and personal growth. As the webmaster of this site, I have also included here internet sources that I found helpful in developing the content of this site. As this site continues to grow, I expect to add more resources. RG 5/5/07

Suggestions to a blind friend on how to market his self-published book. Before creating this site, I first created a site suggesting ways that I thought might be effective in promoting a book written by his blind friend -- Emile Najm. I invited and will continue to invite viewers to add their own suggestions. Bruce Atchison, a visually impaired writer -- the author of When a Man Loves a Rabbit -- made some very helpful suggestions.

Retinitis Pigmentosa

What is Retinitis Pigmentosa? An article from the Foundation Fighting Blindness. This is the disease that took away Emile's site.
Research articles on Retinitis Pigmentosa also from the Foundation Fighting Blindness. See, too, information on treatments.

Significance of Pegasus

Emile's book Pegasus is listed on the Arab American Museum website.
What Greek mythology has to say about Pegasus? This source should help you see why Emile selected Pegasus Lesson as the title of his book.
University of Virginia explains where the name Pegasus comes from and why the name is appropriate for a medivac helicopter.
Pegasus in great detail from the Theoi Project.

Dreams of the Blind. Do those who are blind since birth or very early childhood actually dream in images? Nancy H. Kerr from Oglethorpe University and G. William Domhoff from the University of California, Santa Cruz answer this question.

Colbert, Larry C. "A Walk with the Blind: Protocols for Interacting with the Blind and Visually Impaired." Many people feel uncomfortable around the blind. They are not sure how to act. Mr. Colbert's advice will make many of us feel more confident and relaxed on how we relate to the blind.

Emile Najm on the Internet

September 27, 1996. Emile appointed to the Michigan Commission for the Blind.

February 22, 2000. Agenda of the Michigan Commission for the Blind at the Commission's monthly meeting gave special recognition to Commissioner Emile Najm

Additional resources will be added. If you, the reader, have a source to recommend, please send the link to pegasus@gordonrichard.com. Please use "Resources" as your subject.