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The Surf Center Arte Vida, in Tarifa, and NorthSails Spain have worked together with Xavier Mandico (pictured), a blind sports man who has developed a program for blind windsurfers.
Using a radio set Xavier is connected to a second windsurfer and is therefore able to do what he always wanted to do: Windsurfing!
Now he is planning the next step: crossing the strait of Gibraltar.
Xavier Mandic is 42 years old and lost his vision at the age of 26 due to high exposure to solar radiation in the high mountains, combined with a genetic disease.
In January 2009, Olivier Brisse set a world record for distance sailed on a windsurfer by a blind person, in Dakhla, Morocco.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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