Disney Parks with Visual Disabilities
Disney Parks are
so visual how can you enjoy them with visual disabilities? Well, you can!
Disney has assistance for those with many different kinds of disabilities,
including visual disabilities.
For those with
visual disabilities Disney Parks has a limited number of Braille Guide Books and
Audio Description devices you can use. There are also large stationary Braille
maps available at several locations in all parks. Both the Braille Guide book
and Audio Description device are available at Guest Relations at any of the
parks. They are free to use but there is a $25 refundable deposit. You must
return the device or map book on the same day for a refund.
Braille Guidebooks
are available for each theme park and include attraction, restaurant and store
descriptions.
The Audio
Description device will describe some attractions as you ride them. The Audio Description
device also describes some outdoor locations as well.
Here is a list of
the attractions at the Disneyland Resort that make use of the device:
Alice in
Wonderland
Buzz Lightyear
Astro Blasters
Captain EO
Disneyland
Monorail
Disneyland
Railroad
Enchanted Tiki
Room
Fantasmic!
Finding Nemo
Submarine Voyage
Haunted Mansion
“It’s a Small
World”
It’s Tough to be a
Bug!
The Little Mermaid
– Ariel’s Undersea Adventure
The Many
Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Monster’s Inc.
Mike & Sulley to the Rescue!
Muppet*Vision 3D
Mr. Toads Wild
Ride
Peter Pan’s Flight
Pinocchio’s Daring
Journey
Pirates of the
Caribbean
Snow White’s Scary
Adventures
Storybook Land
Canal Boats
Turtle Talk with
Crush
World of Color
Trained service
animals are always welcomed at Disney Parks. They must be kept on leash or in harness
at all times. There are many locations where you can take your animal to
relieve themselves. The service animal relief areas are marked on the map but
any open “grassy” area is available for use as long as you clean up after them.
Characters are more than happy to take pictures with service animals.
Service animals
may not accompany their owners on some attractions. This is for the animal’s
safety as well as the safety of guests on the attraction. When a service animal
can’t go with their partner they must be held by a person accompanying the owner/guest.
Disney Cast Members may not hold the animal. At the Disneyland Resort there are
portable kennels (cages) at major attractions that cannot accommodate the
animal. If there is not one at the attraction you wish to ride ask and one will
be brought. This is only for the use of the guest while on that particular
attraction. This allows all the members of the party to ride together. At this
time Disney does not have the portable kennels at Walt Disney World. At Walt
Disney World you do a switch where one person rides while the other holds the
animal. When the first person has ridden the attraction the second person will
go on the attraction without further waiting. This works just like the Child
Swap.
Here are links to
the information on the Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort websites:
Disneyland Resort
Services for Guests with Visual
Disabilities:
Service Animals
Walt Disney World Resort
Services for Guests with Visual
Disabilities:
This includes a link to a list of
attractions that make use of the Audio Description Device throughout the Walt
Disney World Resort
Service Animals
You can also call
(407) 827-7935 for information including parade and show times and restaurant
menu details at both the Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World.
My
Christmas book, “An Angel Remembers 25 Voices of Christmas” is available!!
This is a collection of 26 short Christmas stories that
together bring the amazing events of Christ’s birth alive. It is my hope that
this will help encourage families to spend 10-15 minutes a day together during
the busy holiday season remembering the true reason for the season.
You can
find it for ALL eReader formats and PDF at:
For your
Nook the link is:
It is also
available at the iTunes book store and many other ebook seller sites.
The only
big site not carrying my book is Amazon.
You can
download a Kindle version from Smashwords.com
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