October: Blindness Awareness Month

 Do you know what blindness is?  Blindness is the inability to see or a lack of vision.  In some cases, the blind person is unable to distinguish darkness from bright light in either eye.

In today's society, blindness is frequently used to describe a severe visual decline in one or both eyes with some residual vision.

Under the law, legal blindness is defined as central visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with the best correction (glasses) or a field deficit of 20 degrees or less in the best eye.  So, what you or I see at 200 feet away, the legally blind person would be 20 feet away from that object.  Most of our clients have some usable vision yet they meet the definition of legal blindness.  

This month, we will talk about some of the barriers someone who is blind or visually impaired encounters on a regular basis.  Please follow our blog for more information.

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