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Even as travel is currently limited during the COVID-19 pandemic, it's energizing to read Hayhoe's latest--and reconfirm a mutual spirit of adventure. Here he provides, pure and simple, a good navigation to U.S. travel for those experiencing sight loss; hearing loss; learning disabilities, memory loss, and autism higher on the spectrum ; and mobility issues (with guidance for accompanying travelers who support them). The first section elaborates on issues of accessibility concerning each of these conditions and spells out how to manage and accommodate travel via technology, from tablets to phones. A dozen U.S. cities . . . are then featured--Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC--each with a handful of carefully selected cultural sites and museums, including contact information and accessibility details, such as assistive listening guides and accessible parking and restrooms.--Booklist

Even as travel is currently limited during the COVID-19 pandemic, it's energizing to read Hayhoe's latest--and reconfirm a mutual spirit of adventure. Here he provides, pure and simple, a good navigation to U.S. travel for those experiencing sight loss; hearing loss; learning disabilities, memory loss, and autism higher on the spectrum; and mobility issues (with guidance for accompanying travelers who support them). The first section elaborates on issues of accessibility concerning each of these conditions and spells out how to manage and accommodate travel via technology, from tablets to phones. A dozen U.S. cities . . . are then featured--Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC--each with a handful of carefully selected cultural sites and museums, including contact information and accessibility details, such as assistive listening guides and accessible parking and restrooms.-- Booklist

"Even as travel is currently limited during the COVID-19 pandemic, it's energizing to read Hayhoe's latest--and reconfirm a mutual spirit of adventure. Here he provides, pure and simple, a good navigation to U.S. travel for those experiencing sight loss; hearing loss; ""learning disabilities, memory loss, and autism higher on the spectrum""; and mobility issues (with guidance for accompanying travelers who support them). The first section elaborates on issues of accessibility concerning each of these conditions and spells out how to manage and accommodate travel via technology, from tablets to phones. A dozen U.S. cities . . . are then featured--Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC--each with a handful of carefully selected cultural sites and museums, including contact information and accessibility details, such as assistive listening guides and accessible parking and restrooms."

Even as travel is currently limited during the COVID-19 pandemic, it's energizing to read Hayhoe's latest--and reconfirm a mutual spirit of adventure. Here he provides, pure and simple, a good navigation to U.S. travel for those experiencing sight loss; hearing loss; ""learning disabilities, memory loss, and autism higher on the spectrum""; and mobility issues (with guidance for accompanying travelers who support them). The first section elaborates on issues of accessibility concerning each of these conditions and spells out how to manage and accommodate travel via technology, from tablets to phones. A dozen U.S. cities . . . are then featured--Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, DC--each with a handful of carefully selected cultural sites and museums, including contact information and accessibility details, such as assistive listening guides and accessible parking and restrooms.

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Simon Hayhoe is the author of six books on art education and museum access for people with disabilities and is also an educational advisor for the World Health Organization. His current work focuses on inclusive mobile technologies, and he has just completed a European project investigating the use of mobile technologies by disabled people in museums and monuments. Hayhoe has also won numerous awards in his field, including a Fulbright Award and a Fellowship of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and he has presented his work at major museums and colleges in the US, Russia, UK, Singapore, Belgium and Italy. Beyond work and writing, Hayhoe lives in a beautiful town on a hill with his wife and two children, close to where he was born and raised.

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