patient is legally blind. The patient was diagnosed with a genetic disease‚ recessive retinitis pigmentosa (RP)‚ which results in degeneration of the photoreceptor cells. A patient with RP has a progressive loss of visual acuity‚ progressive night blindness‚ and progressive loss of peripheral vision. The patient’s best corrected visual acuity is currently 20/200 with a visual field restriction of 12 degrees. The patient bumps into objects in the room and gets disoriented as to the location of the bathroom
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The Eyes Are Not Here” [also known as “The Girl on the Train” and “The Eyes Have It”] is a short story by Ruskin Bond‚ an Indian writer. The story exudes irony. The story uses first person point of view. Not far into the story‚ the reader discovers that the narrator is blind but apparently has not always been. Riding on a train and sitting in a compartment provides the setting of the story. This story is an excellent example of situational irony which employs a plot device in which events turn
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Assignment 3 Analyse how a range of factors can impact on individuals with sensory loss including: Communication Information Familiar layouts and routines Mobility Discuss each of these headings in relation to each of the three types of sensory loss. Communication. Having hearing loss can impact everyday life. It prevents people from being able to watch television properly‚ use a telephone‚ hear a doorbell ring or communicate effectively with other people. It can impose feelings of isolation
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Emotional Status and Development in Children Who Are Visually Impaired There are mutual effects of emotional problems on the development of visually impaired children. The methodologies used may correspond to developments at different ages. The study identifies a group of visual impaired children with emotional or behavioral deficits that is compared to their development with visually impaired children with no emotional or behavioral detect as related to age. The author hypothesizes there will be
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Sensory loss Sensory loss takes place when a person’s sight or hearing becomes impaired. For some people who have been born with a hearing or sight impairment the term “loss” is inappropriate. However many people who have spent their lives hearing or seeing and will experience a sense of loss if these abilities are affected. Very few people are totally deaf or completely blind so design for sensory loss should be about supporting remaining ability as well as compensating by using other senses. There
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Garrett Dewbre Dr. Good English 2343 28 February 2013 Lost in a Dark World: John Milton’s “When I Consider How my Light is Spent” Being blind would be an incredibly hard thing to endure‚ and an even harder situation to describe to other people. In John Milton’s 1652 poem When I Consider How my Light is Spent the author uses imagery‚ symbols‚ and extended metaphors to express his feelings of going blind and how it relates to the serving of his god. In exploring the use of his imagery you
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The Gift of Reading: the Louis Braille Story The Gift of Reading: the Louis Braille Story Many of us take the act of seeing for granted. In fact‚ we take many of our senses for granted. This writer believes that if you are able to read this text‚ then you are using your sense of sight to process the words on the page. What about those that cannot see‚ how do they read? Many of us are aware of the process of reading for the blind known as Braille. In this paper‚ I will tell the story of one
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Prosthetic Devices A prosthetic is an artificial body part that replaces a missing or non-functioning body part such as an arm‚ heart or breast. Humans have been making prosthetic limbs since the Ancient Egyptians to replace limbs lost during battle‚ work or just by mistake. Evidence has been found of Egyptians trying to replicate toes with copper ones. Although these were very impractical as they were solid and so were mostly for aesthetic purposes. In the 1400s‚ prosthetics arms made out of
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Characteristics of Gifted Children Very Observant Extremely Curious Intense interests Excellent memory Long attention span Excellent reasoning skills This above average giftedness can be generic or acquired. Mildly gifted (IQ 115-129) Moderately gifted (IQ 130-144) Highly gifted (IQ 145-159) Exceptionally gifted (IQ 160-174) Profoundly gifted (IQ 175+) MENTAL RETARDATION Genetic conditions Problems during pregnancy. Problems at birth. TYPES syndromic intellectual disability
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Establishing a school for the blind The first school for the blind opened up new doors for people with disabilities‚ including the fact that destructive‚ negative social attitudes about blindness slowly died out. It is reported that in many civilizations‚ blind babies were abandoned and left to die either from exposure to the elements or to be eaten by wild animals. Later‚ blind men were sold into slavery‚ and women into prostitution. Many others were used for amusement‚ but most blind people lived
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