This news segment from KLRU, brought to you by Texas Mutual Insurance. Ever since I was six, I've been blind. Yeah, so it's gotten easier for me now, I'm already used to it, but then for other people who become blind later, it's always harder for them to adapt. We're on the campus of the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Austin, Texas where we have sat since 1916. It's K-12, and we also have a post-secondary program for kids who have finished all of their high school requirements but are still not quite ready to go live and work independently in the community. Our kids work in the same curriculum that students do at any other school in Texas, but we also concentrate very heavily on what's called the "Expanded Core Curriculum", and that comprises all of the special skills that blind kids need to have to function independently and to succeed in schools. We also have something called "On Air", which is orientation and mobility, which is a class where we learn how to use our cane, and travelling, and you can go by yourself. So I'll take the skills that I learn here in mobility, and I apply them to my actual living skills. And that was helpful, and I did my own travelling during the summer. I think that many people can't quite envision the level of independence and the level of capability that they have. People are constantly amazed to see what our students do. We do teach some hard skills like - have you been working in the coffee shop yet? Yes. We have a pretty intense coffee maker in there. It's not just the little on-your-counter-top, it's for real. We've had students that have gone and taken some of that knowledge over to Starbucks. You get to communicate that it's OK if you're in the kitchen and you get hurt. That happens to everybody, it's not just because you can't see where something was. Some students just lost their vision a year ago, and so they are just beginning to experience how it's like to be blind. It's really nice to be there for those other students, and you can still do whatever you want to do. I'm taking electives like Maps To, which is a career class where we learn about different careers. And you told us the one you were interested in for five years. I want to be a UN Rights lawyer. I hope our school lets students know that just because you have visual impairment, or just because you can't see, does not mean you're less worthwhile, you're just like everybody else, you just don't see great. And that's cool because you guys can do all kinds of things, probably not the best drivers, but you can do all kinds of things and it still makes you worthwhile and priceless. This news segment from KLRU was brought to you by Texas Mutual Insurance.