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18 unusual facts about blindness


Blinded

Blindness, the physiological condition of lacking visual perception

Cages

In an effort to care for her blind son Jonah (Dickson Tan), she reluctantly seeks out the only living relative she knows, her father Tan (Mako Iwamatsu).

Communication disorder

Blindness – A link between communication skills and visual impairment with children who are blind is currently being investigated.

Frederick Joseph Laverack

Frederick Joseph Laverack (1871 – 11 April 1928) was an English social worker, campaigner for the blind and Liberal Member of Parliament.

Habib the Carpenter

Baidawi further related that the disciples, by the will of God, performed various miracles including healing the sick and blind.

Here Comes Fortune

She then finds out that this pianist is blind, and she is moved by his talent and creates opportunities for him to expose his talent, and even uses forbidden powers to grant him back his eyesight sacrificing her fairy status and banished to earth as human.

Insight – ICT for the differently abled

Currently, Insight imparts ICT training to people who have Visual impairments, ranging from Blindness, Low vision etc.

Jackie Stamps

Although blind for the final 20 years of his life, he continued to attend Derby County games.

Jim Fidler

Blind since age 9, he continued to develop his talents.

K-NFB Reader

The K-NFB Reader (an acronym for Kurzweil — National Federation of the Blind Reader) is a handheld electronic reading device for the blind.

Loretta Claiborne

Claiborne was born partially blind and was unable to talk or walk until the age of four.

One Oclarit

One Oclarit (born Onecimo Oclarit in 1951), usually known as One, is a blind Filipino lyricist, pianist, composer and hymnist best known for his Cebuano Christian hymns.

Primary Club

In 2004, The Primary Club made grants in excess of £180,000 to clubs and schools for the blind throughout the United Kingdom.

Reading machine

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

Superior orbital fissure

Blindness or loss of vision indicates involvement of the orbital apex, which is more serious, requiring urgent surgical intervention.

The Human Duplicators

This mission of colonization is thwarted not by the FBI agents sent to investigate but by him falling in love with the scientist's beautiful blind niece Lisa (Dolores Faith).

Thomas Cooper de Leon

He was totally blind from 1903 and called "The Blind Laureate of the Lost Cause."

Youngstown Radio Reading Service

The Youngstown Radio Reading Service (YRRS) is a radio reading service located in Youngstown, Ohio, providing daily readings of a wide variety of topical printed materials to blind and vision-impaired people.


African trypanosomiasis

The first effective treatment, atoxyl, an arsenic-based drug developed by Paul Ehrlich and Kiyoshi Shiga, was introduced in 1910, but blindness was a serious side effect.

Aimee Walker Pond

She is completely deaf and is blind in her right eye, making her one of a very few disabled gymnasts who have competed at the national level (another is Marie Roethlisberger).

Anton–Babinski syndrome

It is mentioned frequently as "Anton's Blindness" as one of the primary metaphors in Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing.

Apperceptive agnosia

Following Hermann Munk's identification of a condition he called "Seelenblindheit" (mind-blindness) Heinrich Lissauer published an exhaustive diagnostic evaluation of a patient who could not, or only with great difficulty, visually identify common objects.

Blind Boy Fuller

According to researcher Bruce Bastin, "While he was living in Rockingham he began to have trouble with his eyes. He went to see a doctor in Charlotte who allegedly told him that he had ulcers behind his eyes, the original damage having been caused by some form of snow-blindness."

Camp Bloomfield

Founded in 1958 by Henry Bloomfield and the Junior Blind of America, the non-profit camp runs several sessions every summer for those who are blind and visually impaired.

Daryl Coley

When he visited his doctor (more than two weeks later), he was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, which caused him temporary blindness.

Deborah Ann Woll

Woll's boyfriend, EJ Scott, suffers from a condition, Choroideremia, which ultimately results in blindness.

Flash blindness

Also in aviation, there is concern about laser pointers and bright searchlights causing temporary flash blindness and other vision-distracting effects in pilots who are in critical phases of flight such as approach and landing.

Germaine Cousin

The miracles attested were cures of every kind (of blindness, congenital and resulting from disease, of hip and spinal disease), besides the multiplication of food for the distressed community of the Good Shepherd at Bourges in 1845.

Govindappa Venkataswamy

The duo approached the then prime minister of India, Mrs Indira Gandhi, to establish a national level organisation to control blindness.

Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas

A growing weakness of sight, ending in blindness, prevented him from carrying the work further, but he translated Napier's Peninsular War as a sort of continuation to it.

Helen Keller National Center

Authorized by an Act of Congress in 1967, the Center provides nationwide services for people who are deaf-blind according to the definition of deaf-blindness in the Helen Keller Act.

Herbert Tenzer

Tenzer was also president of the board member for Fight for Sight/National Council to Combat Blindness (NCCB), based in New York City.

Inattentional blindness

The best-known study demonstrating inattentional blindness is the Invisible gorilla test, conducted by Daniel Simons of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Christopher Chabris of Harvard University.

Inattentional Blindness

Findings such as inattentional blindness - the failure to notice a fully visible but unexpected object because attention was engaged on another task, event, or object - has changed views on how the brain stores and integrates visual information, and has led to further questioning and investigation of the brain and importantly of cognitive processes.

Isaac Lidsky

As a law clerk for Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2008-09, he became the first blind US Supreme Court clerk.

James B. Whitfield

Whitfield's grandson Randolph Whitfield, Jr is an ophthalmologist known for his pioneering work tracking blindness in Africa.

Keratitis

These blackfly usually dwell near fast-flowing African streams, so the disease is also called "river blindness".

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

I followed thereby the scientific formation of the term "Daltonism", from Dalton, the discoverer of colour-blindness.

Margaret Heffernan

Examining examples of willful blindness in the Catholic Church, the SEC, Nazi Germany, Bernard Madoff’s investors, BP’s safety record, the military in Afghanistan and the dog-eat-dog world of subprime mortgage lenders, the book demonstrates how failing to see—or admit to ourselves or our colleagues—the issues and problems in plain sight can ruin private lives and bring down corporations.

Mark Pollock

Uncertain over whether to make the trip to the South Pole and concerned over the impact of sastrugi on his blindness, Pollock consulted with the explorer Pat Falvey who had completed the journey eighteen months previously.

Maryland School for the Blind

Located in the northeast corner of Baltimore, The Maryland School for the Blind (MSB) is a private, statewide resource center providing outreach, school and residential programs to children and youth from infancy to age 21 who are blind or visually impaired including those with multiple disabilities.

Media Access Australia

People with disabilities, particularly those who are Deaf, hearing impaired, blind or vision impaired, are in many cases excluded from mainstream audiovisual media, with often profound implications for educational outcomes, workforce participation and social inclusion.

Milan Hudecek

He is a Member of the Order of Australia, winner of the Winston Gordon Award for Technological Advancement in the Field of Blindness and Visual Impairment, and Rolls-Royce & Qantas Award of Engineering Excellence.

Mundame

By 1970, the community was described as a "forest village", with a relatively high level of infection by the parasitic worm Onchocerca volvulus, the causative agent of river blindness.

Nguyễn Thanh Tùng

He is well-known not only for his moving monochord performances and compositions, but also for his inner strength and perseverance as a blind Agent Orange victim.

Nikola Altomanović

He was defeated and blinded in Užice (fortress Užice) in 1373 by a coalition of his Serbian and Bosnian royals neighbors supported by the king of Hungary.

Osprey Packs

The world's first blind mountain climber to summit Mount Everest, Erik Weihenmayer, used an Osprey backpack, the Aether 60, and is pictured with it on the cover of Time Magazine's June 18th, 2001 issue.

Special needs

People with autism, Down syndrome, dyslexia, blindness, ADHD, or cystic fibrosis, for example, may be considered to have special needs.

Tabby's Place

Tabby's Place houses many "special needs" cats, adopting a philosophy that even cats with serious health conditions such as diabetes, Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), neurological disabilities, cancer, blindness and paraplegia should be able to live with dignity, to have a loving home, and to be adopted.

Ted Whitten

During a State of Origin game only weeks before his death, Whitten, suffering from blindness due to the cancer, was driven around a lap of the MCG, with his son Ted jr. by his side and Mariah Carey's "Hero" playing on the PA system.

The Demoniacs

Wynne's ordinary job is somewhat similar; he is a thief-taker under the direction of Sir John Fielding, a real-life personage who was in charge of the Bow Street Runners despite his blindness.

The Secret Bench of Knowledge

The unveiling of the new statue was done by Vivot, assisted by a young blind boy named Gabriel McBride, from Spruce View, Alberta, who inscribed his message in Braille.

Thérèse-Adèle Husson

At the age of nine months, she became blind as a result of smallpox, but this did not stop her from writing more than a dozen children's novels.

Tulio Enrique León

In 1947, after his eyesight was examined in the United States by the Spanish ophthalmologist, Ramon Castroviejo, he was diagnosed with blindness due to optic nerve atrophy.

Washington School for the Blind

The Washington School for the Blind, also known as the Washington State School for the Blind, is a school for visually-impaired, blind, or deaf-blind students, located in Vancouver, Washington in the United States.