X-Nico

unusual facts about Blind people


Yuva Unstoppable

On his return to India in May 2005 after graduation, Amitabh Shah visited orphanages, the local Blind People's Association, two slum children schools and poor vagabonds found near the railway stations.


Maggie Anderson

She worked as a rehabilitation counselor for blind and visually impaired clients at the West Virginia Rehabilitation Center from 1973-77.


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Edgar Villchur

At the same time, he worked at the American Foundation for the Blind in Manhattan, organizing their laboratory and designing or redesigning devices to make it easier for blind people to live independently.

Freedom Scientific

Arkenstone, founded in 1989 by Jim Fruchterman was known for producing page scanning software to permit blind people to read print books and documents through voice synthesizers and braille displays.

LED Incapacitator

Peter Herby, head of the legal division of the "mines-arms unit" at the International Committee of the Red Cross, suggests that such a device may raise many of the same issues as have arisen with laser-based blinding weapons, known as "dazzlers" because of the intense light with which they temporarily or permanently blind people.

Lucien Howe

Howe headed a committee of the American Medical Association, which collaborated with the Eugenics Record Office to register family "pedigrees" of blind people.

Reading machine

A reading machine is a piece of assistive technology that allows blind people to access printed materials.

The Brain That Changes Itself

Doidge presents an experiment performed by Alvaro Pascual-Leone in which he mapped the brains of blind people learning to read Braille.

Warwickshire Association for the Blind

The inaugural meeting of WAB was chaired by Lord Algernon Percy, the High Sheriff of Warwickshire, and a former Conservative MP, who spoke of the difficulties blind people experienced when finding employment, while other members expressed a need for greater support to equal that which was taking place in other parts of the country.