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VIDBE - Q Volume 63 Issue 1
Dine in the Dark
Lauren Maloney
Student
Lmalo076@live.kutztown.edu
Kutztown University
May Moscato
Student
pmosc870@live.kutztown.edu
Kutztown University
Eating while blindfolded for 45 minutes might not seem all that difficult, but
imagine if you could never take that blindfold off. Dine in the Dark in Reading, PA is an
event that brings awareness to people who can ' t ever take that blindfold off, and
hopefully it gives the people participating in the event a bit of insight into what dinner is
like for those who are blind or visually impaired. If you ask the 150 people who
participated in this event, they will most likely tell you this experience was scary and
very different. At the end of the event, those who participated informed us about how
great of an experience this was and how much they have learned through such a short
amount of time. As future teachers of the visually impaired (TVIs) this is exciting to hear
and we hope to be able to educate our peers more about visual impairments.
Dine in the Dark is an event that TVIs and future TVIs put together along with the
Berks County Vision Resource Center. N ot only does this dinner raise awareness for
people who are visually impaired or blind, but it also raises money for the Berks County
Vision Resource Center and the students here at Kutztown University that are enrolled
