Thesaurus entry: blind

Article: Blind Vision; What the world looks like for people ...
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  March 17, 2008 ;     625 words ... ... governor who is legally blind. But what does that mean? Legally blind in New York is defined as 20/200 vision or worse, which means ... 200, which is legally blind by the state's definition ... anything at all. Perfect vision, 20/20, means that ...

Article: A Proposed Tactile Vision-substitution System for Infants ...
Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... for infants who are blind. Vision is the primary perceptual ... allow infants who are blind to detect the presence ... Prosthesis Substitution Vision with Audition) essentially ... such as the Tactile Vision Substitution System ... children who are blind because they had ...

Article: Beyond quotas: a color-blind vision for affirmative ...
Policy Review;  May 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... for everyone willing and able to compete for them. What follows is an attempt to articulate the basis of a color-blind vision for affirmative action in government policy. Rooting out Discrimination When it first entered common usage in the 1960s ...

Article: Counseling the blind and vision-impaired
Drug Topics;  November 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... truth. The number of blind and vision-impaired is estimated ... 14 million. Legally blind diabetics represent about ... population. Many legally blind patients can use our ... like anyone with normal vision. When doing an intake ...

Article: Visions of a better future; Blind Association ...
Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... Susquehanna Association for the Blind and Vision Impaired said the expansion of ... see better days ahead for the blind- and vision-impaired community in Lancaster ... advantages and assistance to blind and vision-impaired people in Lancaster ...

Article: Barriers to employment identified by blind and ...
Social Policy Journal of New Zealand;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... 102 organisations of the blind in 75 countries, asking ... employment for persons who are blind or vision impaired" (2002:246 ... Zealand Foundation of the Blind (RNZFB) found employment ... those who had "no usable vision" to 65% for those with ...

Article: MindLeaders Adds Accessibilty Feature for the Blind and ...
PR Newswire;  October 2, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... The new service will enable blind or vision-impaired students to use a ... of the Freedom Scientific, Blind/Low Vision Group. JAWS for Windows is ... Petersburg, Florida, the Blind/Low Vision Group of Freedom Scientific ...