VISUAL IMPAIRMENT (Including Blindness) I. DEFINITION "Visual impairment including blindness" means an impairment in vision that‚ even with correction‚ adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness. This impairment refers to abnormality of the eyes‚ the optic nerve or the visual center for the brain resulting in decreased visual acuity. Students with visual impairments are identified as those with a corrected visual acuity of 20/70
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Visual Impairment. 490‚420 children with vision difficulty‚ 42‚000 children with severe vision impairment and 59‚341 children who are legally blind (Visual Impairment‚ Including Blindness). Many of the people that have a Visual Impairment happen when they are baby. They are born this way. It is called congenital blindness. There are many different types of Visual Impairments in the world. Strabismus is where the eyes look in different directions and do not focus simultaneously on a single point. A
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How are the blind in the mental hospital compared animals? Why is this comparison made? In the quarantine the blind slowly transform into savages. “There are many ways of becoming an animal‚ he thought‚ this is just the first of them” (93)‚ this first sign being how dirty they all are; the hallways filled with feces‚ their beings covered in filth‚ the corpses lying in the yard. As much as the internees try to not recognize their savagery‚ it slowly becomes inevitable and “if we cannot live entirely
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through and figured out the truth. “I can love only one man. And that very man is coming to kill me tonight (pg.93)”. This shows Kesa’s real feelings for Morito. Past all the immoral values‚ hatred‚ and blindness‚ they shared a deep love for one another. Thus‚ immoral motives could lead to blindness‚ hatred‚ and lies. We learned a dirty little secret to nothing but heart ach. The truth was hidden by lust. Immoral motives can lead a person to bad fates. In the end they hide the pure truth that lies
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corrected by surgery‚ refractive measures neither by medication and that is why it is termed as visual impairment. The most rampart causes of visual challenge are trauma‚ degenerative or congenital means and a variety of diseases. In the society‚ blindness is the term that is preferably used to describe a visually impaired per son. Low eyesight is generally revealed when the affected person cannot view a normal distance and walk by himself (Algozzine‚ 2006). The degree of impairment can also be revealed
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flexibility of the lens‚ causing decreased near vision. Cataracts are also very common in older adults; they cause the eye to have increased lens opacity in which reduces visual acuity and causes glares. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in adults over the age of 65. 2. What are normal hearing changes that occur with aging? At around age 65‚ the hearing ability starts to decrease; this is called presbycusis. It is more common in men than women. Higher
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the story the narrator points out numerous faults of the other characters. This would lead the reader to believe that the narrator has it all together. It is soon discovered that behind the narrator’s ignorant accusations there is a plethora of blindness‚ ignorance‚ and jealousy. Robert is really the most capable person in this story even though he is portrayed as a poor disabled wretch when the narrator says “I’d always thought dark glasses were a must for the blind" or "I didn’t want to be left
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to pass”(Sophocles 47). This action of fleeing Corinth is based on his intention‚ which is trying to save his parents from suffering and to prevent any “horror” from happening. Oedipus has the ambition to flee his fate but rather because of his “blindness” to the fact that Polybus and Merope aren’t his real parents his action actually pushes him closer to his fate. This proves that his actions are
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vision‚ according to the WHO. In the Philippines‚ no exact figure is available but a survey in 1995 showed that more that 1.2 million Filipinos are either totally or partially blind in one or both eyes. Visual Impairment is not‚ however‚ limited to blindness but also covers defects cause vy diseases and accidents. For this reason‚ President Ramon Magsaysay in 1954 issued Presidential Proclamation No. 40 declaring the first week of August as Sight Conservation Week which has been expanded to the whole
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Cited: Accessibility. http://www.apple.com/accessibility/iphone/vision.html. Retrieved April 21‚ 2013. Blindness. http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/products/blindness/braillenotes.Retrieved April 21‚ 2013. JAWS for Windows Screen Reading Software. http://www.freedomscientific.com/products/fs/ JAWS-product-page.asp. Retrieved April 21‚ 2013. What is the National Federation of the Blind
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