#Blind card shark professional#

He was an English professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso Community College, Villa Verde Community College and Los Angeles City College.

He helped shape early ADA legislation and voting rights for the blind and visually impaired throughout his early adulthood.ДЄ graduate of the University of Texas, Austin he received BA degree in English and a Master of Fine Arts in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California. This most extraordinary ability came to the attention of noted researcher Bruce Willson McCarthy who included him in his study.ДЄt five he moved to Austin to attend the Texas State School for the Blind and went on to become a pioneer for Americans with Disabilities as one of the first mainstreamed blind students in the state of Texas to attend a public high school.

Through a series of continuous clicks of his tongue he found a way to echolocate objects and map the unseen path in his mind. This is how he found himself riding a bike at a young age, completely blind. Son of James Branch Taylor and Cosette Maud Taylor- she was his most ardent advocate and a lioness of a mother who dared her son to go beyond the limitations set by others. He was also blind, and had been since the age of three. He was a magnificent story teller, practiced in the divine art of the BBQ, a card shark, a Scrabble player and was once a winner on the $25,000 Pyramid.

He played guitar, drums, violin, sax and stand up bass with Kenny Rogers, Art Lewis and Bobby Doyle among others and appeared in the films of Patty Duke Astin and Wesley Snipes.

He was a published author of essays and poetry, a noted speaker, community activist and brown belt in Judo. Weldon Burns Taylor was born on Januin Houston, Texas.

#Blind card shark professional#