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Mobility Matters: Stepping Out in Faith (The Mobility Series Book 1) Kindle Edition

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Adventurous international teacher, Amy Bovaird, is diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a hereditary eye disease that will blind her. In spite of that, she manages to continue teaching overseas. Then her father’s final illness brings her back home for good. There, friends and acquaintances begin to notice that she doesn’t always recognize them and sometimes stumbles…as if drunk! Insensitive students ridicule her in the classroom. Unwilling to accept that she is truly losing her eyesight, Amy resists when the Bureau of Blindness schedules a mobility specialist to begin training her to use a white cane. How can she, an independent world traveler, use something that screams ‘I am a blind person’? Will her faith prove strong enough to allow her to move forward and accept herself as she is?

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00O5P9MGY
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 3, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 715 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 178 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,506,083 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,589 in Biographies of People with Disabilities (Books)
- #19,528 in Memoirs (Kindle Store)
- #20,244 in Biographies & Memoirs (Kindle Store)

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Amy L. Bovaird is an Award-Winning Christian Writer, Author, and Memoirist who writes about mobility and sight loss disabilities using humor and enjoys writing about international travel and adventure as well as faith-inspired devotionals. Ms. Bovaird has five published titles to her credit, with the newest titled 'A Time to Dance: Finding Joy After Child Loss.' Her books are available on Amazon Books, Kindle, and fine online bookstores.

She Received the "Medal of Honor in Literature" for her first memoir, Mobility Matters: Stepping Out in Faith, from Ohio Valley University in 2016. Her second memoir, 'Cane Confessions: The Lighter Side of Mobility,' and her third memoir devotional, 'Seeking Solace: Finding Joy After Loss,' reached No. 1 Bestseller status in various categories, including Biographies and Memoirs, Eye Problems, Grief and Dying, and Spiritual Healing. In March 2020, she released 'Hitting A Home Run: Blind and Thriving,' which also Hit #1 on Amazon for fun short travel reads.

Amy was diagnosed at age 28 with Retinitis Pigmentosa and was declared legally blind. She had worked as a specialist in second language acquisition for nearly 30 years. Her career took her to Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Amy now views life as a personal adventure and has traded her overseas experiences for an everyday adventure into blindness. Amy is a member of Vision Aware as a Peer Advisor Life Support through their (PALS) Program.

Ms. Bovaird earned her M.A. in Bicultural – Bilingual Studies from the University of Texas at San Antonio and is a lifelong learner about vision, writing, or language-related. Born and raised in Pennsylvania, she continues to educate and entertains her readers with humorous anecdotes of coping with ongoing vision loss; more importantly, she shares the lessons God reveals to her through her difficulties. When she is not writing, she negotiates for the upper hand with her cat, Sophie Socks and on most occasions fails to win at it. Today, Amy still resides in Northwest, Pennsylvania.

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Marisa Postlewate

An inspirational account of a challenging life journey

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2016

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Mobility Matters is an inspirational memoir. The vignettes narrate in great detail the challenges a vision and hearing impaired person faces in life. While dealing with dual sensory loss is never easy, the author shares how she graciously deals with her many challenges in the classroom as a Spanish teacher as well as in daily life. Amy also shares the emotions, doubts and frustrations that get in the way even after deciding that she is ready to get the training needed to continue leading an independent life.

This memoir was my first audiobook and I really enjoyed it. The narrator’s pace and animated tone make the stories easy to follow. The conversational writing style made me feel like a participant in the stories and allowed me to visualize the experiences narrated. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning more about Usher syndrome as well as to those dealing with vision and/or hearing challenges, or any other challenge for that matter. It can inspire and provide a guideline to persons newly diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa or Usher syndrome who may be unsure of what to do next. Parents of children diagnosed with these disorders will also find this memoir very helpful.

The message that permeates throughout this work is that we cannot let fear take over, and facing what could be a disastrous situation with a little humor helps overcome that dread. The reader also learns that, in spite of the disadvantage of dual sensory loss, individuals like Amy can have a successful career and live a fulfilling and independent life through determination, perseverance and faith.

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An inspiring testament to faith and courage

Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2019

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Amy Bovaird is a woman of faith in every sense of the word. Amy's struggles to overcome the obstacles, both physical and emotional, concerned with losing her sight and the honesty with which she relates her story make this a truly impressive read.

The author is feisty and strong but has a vulnerable side to her as well, and I admired the way she described her feelings of anger, frustration, shame, and fear of rejection when dealing with all the implications of trying to maintain her career in the face of her growing disability. Nevertheless, she is an amazingly cheerful soul as well and I loved the way she could laugh at herself for things that would reduce many to tears. The book is lively, very well-written and rich in dialogue. There are also characters in the stories she relates that we become fond of: Bob, her insightful, brave and diligent trainer, Julio, her no-nonsense long-distance friend, Amy's mum, and very importantly, her lovely empathic dog, Buddy.

Throughout the book, we laugh, cry and hurt with the author in her efforts to find her way around in an obstacle-ridden world. The author has an easy, fluent and appealing style and I found it a real page-truner. All in all, it is an immensely uplifting book and I would recommend it highly.

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Sharon

Mobility Matters, is an enjoyable easy read.

Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2021

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Mobility Matters; Stepping Out in Faith
The author inserted Bible verses and words of encouragement throughout the book. (Some my have been intended for herself as well as for the reader.) Ii was a reminder the 'keep your chin up, and keep going' even when things may get tough. I enjoyed the book and it was an easy read. I would recommend it.

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John McDiarmid, Jr.

Educational, humorous, refreshingly honest and spiritual

Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2017

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Mobility Matters Stepping Out in Faith is a book for anyone;no matter who you are. The reader will gain insight into the life of someone who is visually impaired and some of the daily challenges. This book can be most helpful to people who are newly visually impaired and those struggling with the acceptance of learning to receive mobility training and the use of the white cane. It can also serve as an excellent resource for people diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa and other eye conditions, their family and friends, teachers and professors and religious leaders seeking to better understand people living with impaired sight as well as professionals in the field of blindness.
What I enjoyed most was the author's honesty, sense of humor and spirituality. Sharing her own experiences and stories provides examples to all of us how our faith can be lived throughout each day in our life. Her conversations with God and how He provided the answers was most refreshing in a world where most people have forgotten to include God in daily life.
Readers will discover that people living with a sight loss are just like those of us who can see but do things in a different way, using different techniques and devices.
As a trained Orientation and Mobility Specialist I would encourage people experiencing sight impairments and even other instructors for the blind to step out in faith and read Mobility Matters by Amy Bovaird.

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Tammy Brown

Inspirational Journey

Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2020

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"Mobility Matters" details the journey of dealing with Retinitis Pigmentosa. This story describes the author's own life of traveling and loving what she did for a living, yet having to learn to deal with unexpected health issues which impacted how her lifestyle was going to move forward. Amy does a very good job of using descriptive terms, that many are not familiar with, to allow a reader to be pulled into her life and learn about this eye disease. To me, this is quite an impressive feat, as most medical terms are too technical to understand. The book was informative and provided a look at a woman whose faith in God allowed her to triumph victoriously, despite the challenges her genetics predisposed her. I highly recommend this to anyone who has faced questionable health deterioration in their own life, or a family's, to be inspired with a new perspective on their approach to life. She has great courage, a great heart, and a great attitude, as evident in her writing style. I can see why she is known by her peers and students, as a great teacher.

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Jill Hinton Wolfe

A good resource for those just starting their vision impairment journey

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2020

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The author was promoting her book in a Facebook group I belong to (we don’t know each other, and have never communicated before), so I decided to give it a try. Like Amy (in the book), I’m just at the beginning of my RP journey and wondering what the future holds for me. I’m not Christian, so I skipped over those parts, but overall it was a nice primer for anyone facing vision loss about how the next steps might feel.

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Lisa

Leap of faith

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2021

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As an ex-occupational therapist I suppose I’ve always been interested in tales of people coping with disabilities. I have ‘helped’ a number of blind and deaf-blind people over the years but one rarely puts oneself in someone else’s shoes.
Amy was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a progressively degenerative eye disease, aged 28 but it didn’t stop her from living the life she wanted: teaching around the world and having, what one can only imagine were incredible experiences. (Which I would love to read about).
At the beginning of Mobility Matters, Amy is back in the US teaching Spanish. Her RP is beginning to have serious effects on her work and home life but Amy isn’t ready to be tagged as ‘blind’. With the help of a mobility training officer, good friends, and her faith, Amy takes the first steps to becoming independent as a non-sighted person.
Mobility Matters is a fascinating read of someone overcoming the obstacles life puts in her way (often literally for Amy as cupboard doors, stone pillars and kerbs appear from outside her field of vision to attack her). It is written candidly and with humour and gives us an insight into Amy’s doubts and fears. This book also shows people to be just that – people, not blind or sighted, able or disabled – just people and that is the most valuable lesson there is.

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Courageous Lady of Faith!

Reviewed in Australia on January 10, 2021

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WOW! What an amazing journey Ms Bovaid took me on with so many obstacles and challenges she had to face and overcome! I related to so much of this heart-warming book because I struggle from a rare genetic disease myself. I loved how Amy was able to express her honest, raw, vulnerable emotions as she seemed to go from denial, frustration, anger and bring me along with her! I felt inspired and uplifted! Her faith and dependence on a loving God was also an enormous testimony to me! I found myself laughing, crying and had every emotion possible! This brilliant read of a true, honest memoir is something I will be thinking of for days, weeks and months to come and will be looking out for more books written by this author! I highly recommend this book if you want to be Inspired and Uplifted to a place of real gratitude and acceptance to see your own life is worth living then pick up a copy of this truly remarkable story! Suzlily

TrishieB

her teaching and with her instructor who doesn't give Amy an easy-ride - setting her up with challenging tasks… I am very lucky

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 10, 2016

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I was lucky enough to beta read Cane Confessions - the Memoir which follows this one - soon to be released. I wanted to read Mobility Matters - Well written - again, the Author hones in on her faith to help 'see' her through the challenges she faces - not only going blind but also hearing loss. It was an interesting read, poignant and again added humour. We are allowed to follow Amy Bovaird with her friends, her teaching and with her instructor who doesn't give Amy an easy-ride - setting her up with challenging tasks… I am very lucky in that I have no inclination on what this condition must feel like - again, I take my hat off to this Author.

Helen Colson

fantastic book for fellow usher sufferers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2019

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As someone who has been recently diagnosed with Ushers Syndrome, I was so happy when Amy shared this on a Facebook group as it was going for 99p that day. I loved reading about your journey and cane training. I am now starting my own long cane training but without sleep shades. This has made me smile and maybe cried a little. Definitely recommend it!

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