Perkins’ employee featured in the Sunday Globe/West Weekly section:

Confidence in a world unseen
A mobility specialist, Natick resident Suzi Abu-Jaber teaches people – including infants – with visual impairments to get around life’s obstacles.

SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF
February 17, 2008

For nearly two decades, Suzi Abu-Jaber has been helping visually impaired children gain the confidence to venture out into the world.
Those who are sighted, she says, will observe a task being carried out a thousand times before they attempt it on their own. But for children who cannot see, there’s a disconnect with even the most common undertaking.

“A child who can see will watch an adult pick up a telephone and start speaking into it,” said Abu-Jaber. “If someone can’t see, they might hear the footsteps and the sound, but they don’t have the big picture that pulls all of the bits of information together.” [more . . . ]

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