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17 unusual facts about visual impairment


Camp Marcella

For eight weeks during the summer, Camp Marcella offers free one- or two-week camping sessions for visually impaired children and teens ages 5 through 16.

Christian Record Services for the Blind

Christian Record Services for the Blind (CRSB) is a non-profit organization designed to benefit the blind and visually impaired.

DTBook

DTBook was developed by the Daisy Consortium as an accessible file format similar to HTML, with special regard to the requirements of the visually impaired.

Eastern Michigan University Department of Special Education

In 1923, the Michigan State Legislature passed bills that gave school districts state funds if they included and established special schools for handicapped students: those of cognitive impairment, those of the deaf, those who were crippled or those who were visually impaired.

Facing Goliath

Facing Goliath is a 2006 documentary film about a competitive bodybuilder (Sebastian MacLean) who assists a visually impaired friend (Ray Taylor) transform from middle aged, over weight, couch potato to natural bodybuilder.

Lenape Valley Regional High School

The school offers support to the visually, hearing and physically impaired, through special classes and extra-curricular help.

Light Reflectance Value

The guidance is particularly concerned with provisions to assist the disabled, including those who are visually impaired.

Marco Valerio Editore

The company has a particular interest in producing texts for visually impaired people, including large print books in Italian, English and French.

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.

Missouri School for the Blind

The Missouri School for the Blind is an educational institution in the United States specially designed for students who are blind or visually impaired.

Orientation and mobility

Orientation and Mobility or O&M is a profession which focuses on instructing individuals who are blind or visually impaired with safe and effective travel through their environment.

Statue of Europe

The statue was manufactured, modelled, polished and painted by visually impaired children under the supervision of by French artist Bernard Romain, who wanted to demonstrate that disability was not a disqualifying factor.

Tactile graphic

Tactile graphics, including tactile pictures, tactile diagrams, tactile maps and tactile graphs, are images that use raised surfaces so that a visually impaired person can feel them.

Visual impairment

The American Medical Association's Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment attempts to provide "a standardized, objective approach to evaluating medical impairments."

Maguire v SOCOG 2000 (Australian legal case about making a website accessible to a visually impaired person)

Webel Mediatronics Limited

Based in West Bengal, India, it has in the last 10 years developed and commercialized a host of systems for visually impaired, cerebral palsy-affected, hearing handicapped, and autistic persons.

Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University

The visually impaired constitute a 'special group' to whom society must pay concerted attention.


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.

Page zooming

It is usually found in applications related to document layout and publishing, e.g. word processing and spreadsheet programs, but it can also be found in web browsers as it improves accessibility for people with visual impairment and people using mobile devices, such as PDAs and mobiles which have a relatively small screen.

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.

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.