Article: Blind people 'prisoners in their own homes'.(News)

Article: Charity plea for volunteers
Evening Mail;  December 28, 2001 ;     300 words ... ... a New Year's resolution to help partially blind people. Birmingham Focus on Blindness needs volunteers to gather the ... can either bank the money or take it to the Birmingham Focus office, Woodville Road, Harborne. Brett ...

Article: Charity plea for volunteers.(News)
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  December 28, 2001 ;     302 words ... ... a New Year's resolution to help partially blind people. Birmingham Focus on Blindness needs volunteers to gather the ... can either bank the money or take it to the Birmingham Focus office, Woodville Road, Harborne. Brett ...

Article: Blind people find lingering workplace bias
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  March 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... training have improved to the point that blind people can adeptly perform a dazzling array ... only about 30 percent of working-age blind people have jobs. That figure was calculated ... a blind person, so they assume that blind people are not capable of doing most jobs when ...

Article: In workplace, blind people find that technological ...
AP Worldstream;  March 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... training have improved to the point that blind people can adeptly perform a dazzling array ... only about 30 percent of working-age blind people have jobs. That figure was calculated ... a blind person, so they assume that blind people are not capable of doing most jobs when ...

Article: Study suggests blind people compensate with more ...
AP Online;  September 16, 1998 ;     588 words ... ... better hearing than people who can see. Blind people apparently compensate for their lost ... that unlike people with normal vision, blind people could correctly pinpoint the source ... question left unanswered is whether blind people learn to use their hearing more efficiently ...

Article: Do blind people track sounds better?(Brief Article)
Science News;  September 19, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... origin when using both ears, but some blind people can home in on sounds more accurately ... sounds. The researchers tested eight blind people, who had been completely sightless ... monaural, listening, four of the eight blind people identified sound sources more accurately ...

Article: Most blind people lost their sight later in ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  February 10, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... that works to improve opportunities for blind people, says in its packet of information ... Sometimes babies are born blind, but most blind people become blind later on." Illnesses ... adding they might see gray or spots. Blind people can do nearly everything sighted people ...