Vision 2008 is the world's biggest conference on low vision, and welcomes delegates from all over the world - including Europe, Japan, the USA and South Africa. Insight Radio broadcast live from this event in Montreal, Canada, and you can catch up with all of the goings-on on air right here. Listen again to interviews, speeches and features from Vision 2008, with the Official Radio Station of the conference, Insight Radio. 
Allan Russell and Steven Scott with guest Marc Renaud, live from Vision 2008 Some of the audio files below are very large, especially the daily keynote address, and may take several minutes to load depending on the speed of your internet connection. KEYNOTE ADDRESS MONDAY - Opening ceremony takes place with keynote address by Mike May. - Interview with Mike May after his keynote speech. TUESDAY - Opening keynote address by Dr. Serge Resnikoff. - Interview with Dr. Serge Resnikoff after his speech. WEDNESDAY - Opening keynote address by Dr Raymond Leblanc, Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at Dalhousie University. - Interview with Dr Raymond Leblanc after his keynote address. THURSDAY - Opening keynote address by Dr Jay Enoch from the School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley. - Interview with Dr. Enoch after his speech.
REHABILITATION - Interview with Christine Boyle from MAB MacKay Rehabilitation Services based in Montreal. - Interview with Ling Wong, from John Hopkins University in the USA, presenting his studies on rehabilitation services around the world. - Interview with a delegate from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, discussing rehabiliation services available in Hong Kong. - Interview with Mohammed Tawfiq Bellow from Saudi Arabia, discussing services available for blind and partially sighted people in the country. - Karen Winter from Mira, A Canadian Association for Guide Dogs, explaining how the guide dog system works in Canada. - Interview with Betty Anne Baker from Ontario who gave a talk to the conference about the drug Lucentis. - Interview with Matt Fullerton of Peli Vision Rehabilitation Lab, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, talking about a project to provide better defined pictures on TV which help partially sighted to see an image more clearly but also provide a sharp picture for sighted people. - Interview with Dr Gretchen Good from Massey University in New Zealand, who has presented a study on older blind people and how their social lives change as the years go on. - Interview with Nathan Davies from RNIB Cymru, discussing their role and aims at the conference. - Steven speaking to the company Mira about mobility and rehabilitation services in Canada. - Yvonne trialing one of the guide dogs from Mira as a sighted person with a blindfold.
TECHNOLOGY - Kenneth Bradley from Eschenbach talking about low vision devices and trying some out with Steven Scott. - Interview with Ivan Lagassie from Humanware, discussing the latest products available from the company. - Brooks Gilker, from Noir Full Spectrum, talking about eyewear of different colours used to promote the sight people have as well as protect further deterioration. - Steven talks with Frans Oosterhof of O-Vision in the Netherlands about some new lenses, and the award he won for helping people with Wet AMD. - Interview with Rene Versai about a new cane that vibrates and helps people with sight loss to move around more effectively. - Yvonne Milne asks why Nikon are in attendance and has a look at the Nikon stand. - Nurit Neustadt-Noy PhD - Consultation and rehabilitation Services, Israel. Talking about a new device, just being launched, that enables blind and partially sighted people to orientate themselves in public places. - Interview with Vincent Levesque from Haptics Lab, McGill University based in Montreal, presenting a study on tactile graphics. - Interview with Anna McClure from On-Vision America, talking about a small machine that reads barcodes and perscriptions. - Interview with Robert Oyer about video magnifiers. - Interview with Pat Eagan from Precision Vision, Illinois. - Interview with Aimee Arnoldussen, a scientist with Brainport Technologies, talking about 'the brainport' that sits on the tongue and helps blind people to 'see' objects. - Joel Snyder from the Audio Description Association, talking about audio description and his career as an audio descriptor including work for Sesame Street!
VISION RESEARCH - Krister Inde from Inde Nova, Sweden and author of 'Bad Sight Feel Good.' Talking about several projects he has developed in Sweden, in particular a way of helping older people with AMD to continute to use the sight they have in a more effective way. - Anne Plodkin from the University of Waterloo talking about being at the conference. - Interview with Rachel McCrindle from the University of Reading, presenting a study on how architects can learn how partially sighted people can see, so that they can use that experience to influence how buildings are designed. - Interview with Ryszard Chimielowski of Sensis in the Netherlands. - Interview with Kenny Southall, Phd candidiate in Biomedical Science at the University of Montreal talking about the psychological impact of being blind in society. - Interview with Liz Pearce of London's Moorfield Hospital, talking about a study into giving people their first introduction to training and devices available to help them. - Interview with Marc Renaud, Project Manager from McGill Glaucoma Information Centre, Montreal. - Interview with Mike Brace of Vision 20/20 UK. - Interview with Deborah Hanlon of SeeAbility UK. - Interview with Karen Wolfe from the American Foundation for the Blind, discussing her role at this years conference. - Interview with Laura Renninger from Smith Kettlewell Eye Institute in San Fransisco, discussing mobility and the elderly. - Interview with Ian Bailey, Professor of Optometry and Vision Science at the University of Califonia - Interview with George Woo of Hong Kong Polytechnic University about a new device for low vision.
WORLD SERVICES - Tara Cortez Pesident and CEO of Lighthouse International, talking about work of organisation and latest international campaigns. - What's the quality of life like for blind and visually impaired people in India? - Interview with Margaret Brown from the Royal Society for the Blind in South Australia, talking about the experience of people with sight loss in rural areas. - Interview with Lord Low of RNIB talking about the conference and why it's good to be at Vision 2008. - Karen Woolfe from the American Foundation of the Blind talking about Career Connect, a programme to get people in to employment. - Interview with delegates from Finland, who are taking part in the poster presentation at the conference with a poster relating to counselling for children suffering from sight loss. - Interview with Gideon Naar of Israel about dealing with AMD patients in Israel. - Interview with the Senior VP of Lighthouse International, Cynthia Stuen. - Ever thought of volunteering with CNIB? Steven Scott finds out more. - Interview with Anna Bjorkman from the Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted in Denmark, who advises people in further education get into employment.
 THE REST FROM MONTREAL DAY 1 - Interview with Paulette Arseno from MAB MacKay Rehabilitation Services based in Montreal - Interview with Dr Vera Romani, from the Malaysian Association of the Blind, the hosts of Vision 2011. - Interview with Isabelle Moises, one of the key members of the organising committee for Vision 2008. DAY 2 - Renate Reymann from the German Federation of the Blind Talking about services in Germany. - Interview with the CNIB's Delsi Ann Seymes. - Interview with Sarah McDonald from MAB MacKay Rehabilitation Services based in Montreal. - Interview with a specialist in optomotery from the Netherlands, aiming to share his own research in visual impairment. DAY 3 - Allan trying out Guide Dog Devon. - Interview with Daniel Lafleur, Radio Service Co-ordinator of La Magnetotheque in Montreal, a service that works like Transciption in the UK providing newspapers and talking books, but through the medium of radio. - Interview with Alberta Orr, talking about building a coalition on aging and vision. - Interview with Karrine Le Fort of the Institute Nazareth and Louis Braille, a rehabilitation centre in Montreal, talking about the work they do. DAY 4 - Interview with Luke Fortin, a blind radio presenter on Longueil Community Radio in Quebec. - Allan trying out the vibrating cane. DAY 5 -Interview with Steve Mattson of Aurora Ministries, about a free service providing accessible Bibles throughout the world. - Allan finds out about Essilor. - Yvonne milne trialing an eye machine with Yves from Essilor. - Isobel Moises from the Vision 2008 organising committee talking about how the conference has gone. - Richard Clifford from RNIB talking about the conference from the RNIB exhibitor's point of view. FUN The team get out and about for The Buzz - What do people think of Montreal? - Ross Macfadyen and Yvonne Milne ask what the locals get up to? - Ross Macfadyen, Yvonne Milne, Steven Scott and Allan Russell out and about in Montreal. - Ross and Yvonne out and about in the Latin Quarter. - Looking forward to the 'Just for Laughs' comedy festival.
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