Meet Andrey

Andrey is my eldest grandchild; he is 25 and been blind from birth. As a child of my son's former marriage, he is half brother to Alicia and Ewan.
He has lived in his apartment, supported of course, in Langenfeld, on the other side of Dusseldorf, for about a year, so we collected him yesterday and took him home today (Sunday).
As my most recent job before retirement was working for a charity which supports people with sight loss and has broadly similar supported accommodation, I have been trained of course in how best to support people who are blind. What is amazing to me is how naturally this comes to children like Alicia and Ewan, who guide him around the house, help him to the table, and sit and chat to him quite naturally without any training at all.
A great thing about his apartment is that he has wifi and, with a Braille keyboard and text to speech program, he can now communicate with me via email. Although he speaks English very well he is not confident to write it. However, he can write to me in German and Google translate does a good enough job for me to understand (in Romanian it delivers complete nonsense!)
I'm hoping to add an extra or two though I rarely succeed on the iPad. Works perfectly on the Macbook but I don't have it here.
It does, however, usually eventually allow me to add one, so I'll add one of Alicia and Ewan with the Spider book I blipped a few days ago. After the quick look through pictured, I read the verse in English and my son translated for them. Pity I could not read it and picture it at the same time as they were in fits of laughter.
If I succeed in adding more than one I'll show you Andrey in his very nice apartment. It's really great for him to be so independent now and he loves it (previously he lived with his mother). He works part time in an engineering workshop, goes dancing and gets out shopping etc a couple of times a week with people who visit him.