Understanding Blindness In The United States

Understanding Blindness Society relies insensitively on images; making the world we live in, seem intended for sighted people. In a report done by the U.S National Library of Medicine (2015) vision impairment and blindness is also referred to as, Low Vision. To understand blindness we must first look at the different stages and severity of it. Partial blindness means one has very limited sight. Complete Blindness is when the person has no perception of lights and cannot see anything. In most states in the United States, individuals who have a vision of 20/200 or worse, even with the corrections of glasses, are considered legally blind.
Many individuals who have low vision may have age-related eye disorders, such as; macular degeneration,