Doug Baldwin

Doug Baldwin is a retired orientation and mobility specialist who taught for thirty-three years at the Millet Learning Center in Saginaw, Michigan-a public school for handicapped children. He is founder of the mid-Michigan Special Needs Vision Clinic and the Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation, two nonprofit organizations devoted to serving children in special education. Dr. Baldwin was educated as an optometrist and later as a blind rehabilitation specialist. Bugs, Blindness, and the...See more

Doug Baldwin is a retired orientation and mobility specialist who taught for thirty-three years at the Millet Learning Center in Saginaw, Michigan-a public school for handicapped children. He is founder of the mid-Michigan Special Needs Vision Clinic and the Institute for Innovative Blind Navigation, two nonprofit organizations devoted to serving children in special education. Dr. Baldwin was educated as an optometrist and later as a blind rehabilitation specialist. Bugs, Blindness, and the Pursuit of Happiness is his first book and an introduction to three additional upcoming companions: Consciousness: A New Slant on an Old Conundrum , The Confusion Caused by Being Your Own Twin , and Knights for the Blind in the Battle Against Darkness . Dr. Baldwin coined the terms "navigational disability," "environmental literacy," (as it relates to special education), and "allocentric and egocentric disabilities." He has spent decades studying consciousness and navigation, specifically as it relates to children with special needs. He derived a "dual process theory of consciousness," after he retired from teaching in 2010. See less