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Blindness of the Heart: A Novel by Julia Franck, 2010-10-05
Blindness (Movie Tie-In) by Jose Saramago, 2008-09-02
Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism (Theory andHistory of Literature) by Paul De Man, 1983-10-03
The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self by Alice Miller, Andrew Jenkins, 2002-12
Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad by AndrewC. Mccarthy, 2009-12-08
Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening by Stephen Kuusisto, 2006-09-17
The unseen minority: A social history of blindness in America by Frances A Koestler, 1976
Scattered Shadows: A Memoir of Blindness and Vision by John Howard Griffin, 2004-05
Hysterical Blindness by Laura Cahill, 1999-06
Taking Hold: My Journey Into Blindness by Sally Hobart Alexander, 1994-11-01
THE BLINDNESS CURE: HOW TO RESTORE AWARENESS AND WHY YOU NEED TO by Ph.D., Master Deac Cataldo Carol E. McMahon, 2009-01-14
Inattentional Blindness by Arien Mack, Irvin Rock, 2000-07-31
The Encyclopedia of Blindness and Vision Impairment (Facts on File Library of Health and Living) by Susan Shelly, Allan Richard, M.D. Rutzen, et all 2002-08
Blindness and visual impairments: information and advocacy organizations by Unknown, 2007-01-01

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Blindness - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness. 1 Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness

Extractions: Classification and external resources The Blind Girl (1856), a painting by John Everett Millais ICD H H ... ICD Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors. Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define "blindness." Total blindness is the complete lack of form and visual light perception and is clinically recorded as "NLP," an abbreviation for "no light perception." Blindness is frequently used to describe severe visual impairment with residual vision. Those described as having only "light perception" have no more sight than the ability to tell light from dark. A person with only "light projection" can tell the general direction of a light source. In order to determine which people may need special assistance because of their visual disabilities, various governmental jurisdictions have formulated more complex definitions referred to as legal blindness In North America and most of Europe , legal blindness is defined as visual acuity visual field of less than 20 degrees (the norm being 180 degrees) are also classified as being legally blind. Approximately ten percent of those deemed legally blind, by any measure, have no vision. The rest have some vision, from light perception alone to relatively good acuity.
Blindness (2008)
Directed by Fernando Meirelles. With Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Gael García Bernal. Visit IMDb for Photos, Showtimes, Cast, Crew, Reviews, Plot Summary,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0861689/

Extractions: Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP BLINDNESS Amazon.com Amazon.ca Amazon.co.uk Amazon.de ... IMDb Blindness (2008) Quicklinks main details combined details full cast and crew company credits external reviews awards user ratings recommendations message board plot summary plot keywords memorable quotes trivia merchandising links box office/business release dates filming locations technical specs news articles trailers and videos posters official sites miscellaneous photographs Top Links trailers and videos full cast and crew trivia official sites ... memorable quotes Overview main details combined details full cast and crew company credits ... memorable quotes Fun Stuff trivia goofs soundtrack listing crazy credits ... FAQ Other Info merchandising links box office/business release dates filming locations ... news articles Promotional taglines trailers and videos posters photo gallery External Links showtimes official sites miscellaneous photographs ... video clips advertisement photos board trailer details Register or login to rate this title User Rating: 340 votes more Photos see all 7 slideshow Videos see all 2 videos Director: Fernando Meirelles Writers: (novel) Don McKellar (screenplay) Release Date: 26 September 2008 (USA) more view trailer Genre: Drama Mystery Romance Thriller ... more Plot: A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined...
Blindness
Kids who can t see, or can t see well, learn to live without using their eyes. To learn more about visual impairment and what causes it, read our article
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/sight/visual_impaired.html

Extractions: Have you ever put on a blindfold and pretended that you couldn't see? You probably bumped into things and got confused about which way you were going. But if you had to, you could get adjusted and learn to live without your sight. Lots of people have done just that. They have found ways to learn, play, and work, even though they have trouble seeing or can't see at all. Your eyes and your brain work together to see. The eye is made up of many different parts like the cornea, iris, lens, and retina. These parts all work together to focus on light and images. Your eyes then use special nerves to send what you see to your brain, so your brain can process and recognize what you're seeing. In eyes that work correctly, this process happens almost instantly. When this doesn't work the way it should, a person may be visually impaired, or blind. The problem may affect one eye or both eyes. When you think of being blind, you might imagine total darkness. But some people who are blind can still see a little light or shadows. They just can't see things clearly. People who have some sight, but still need a lot of help, are sometimes called "legally blind." What Causes Blindness?
NFB - Home
National Federation of the Blind, the leading force in the blindness field today, has 50000 members, 700 local chapters, 52 affiliates.
http://www.nfb.org/

Extractions: nuisance. The Teen Empowerment Academy is an eight-week residential training and employment program, created and led by the blind, offering blind students an opportunity to build skills, increase confidence, and gain work experience. At the NFB convention in Dallas, the National Organization of Parents of Blind Children will celebrate 25 successful years. Along with their regular convention activities throughout the week, the NOPBC will host a dinner and program with awards, inspirational addresses, and highlights of NOPBC accomplishments. This year's exciting convention will take place at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Make plans to be a part of it: pre-register online now ! Visit the Kenneth Jernigan Scholarship page to learn about convention scholarships.
Foundation Fighting Blindness
The Foundation Fighting blindness is a nonprofit national organization that funds research for macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa (RP),
http://www.blindness.org/
MedlinePlus: Vision Impairment And Blindness
The leading causes of vision impairment and blindness in the United States are agerelated eye diseases macular degeneration, cataract and glaucoma.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/visionimpairmentandblindness.html

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WHO | Blindness
blindness is the inability to see. The leading causes of chronic blindness include cataract, glaucoma, agerelated macular degeneration, corneal opacities,
http://www.who.int/topics/blindness/en/

Extractions: Main content Blindness is the inability to see. The leading causes of chronic blindness include cataract, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, corneal opacities, diabetic retinopathy, trachoma, and eye conditions in children (e.g. caused by vitamin A deficiency). Age-related blindness is increasing throughout the world, as is blindness due to uncontrolled diabetes. On the other hand, blindness caused by infection is decreasing, as a result of public health action. Three-quarters of all blindness can be prevented or treated. RELATED SITES Prevention of blindness and visual impairment
The New York Institute For Special Education
The blindness Resource Center has thousands of links related to braille, eye conditions, vendors and access technology for the blind and visually impaired.
http://www.nyise.org/blind.htm

Extractions: Welcome to the Blindness Resource Center The Blindness Resource Center is maintained for over 10 years on the Internet by The New York Institute for Special Education (NYISE). NYISE is a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian educational facility which provides quality programs for children who are blind or visually disabled, emotionally and learning disabled and preschoolers who are developmentally delayed. The content of the resource is for general information purposes only and does not constitute advice. The Blindness Resource Center(BRC) tries to provide content that is true and accurate as of the date of writing; however, we give no assurance or warranty regarding the accuracy, timeliness, or applicability of any of the contents. Browsing the links at the BRC Web site will take you usually to websites and organizations not controlled or supported by NYISE. These external sites might include opinions or views which, are not necessarily those of NYISE. For our Annual Report and information on making a tax-deductible contribution contact:
Welcome To Prevent Blindness America
Prevent blindness America is the leading volunteer eye health and safety organization dedicated to fighting blindness and saving sight.
http://www.preventblindness.org/

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Blindness: Definition, Synonyms And Much More From Answers.com
blindness ( bl ndn s ) ( medicine ) Loss or absence of the ability to perceive visual images. The condition of a person having less than 1/10 (20/200.
http://www.answers.com/topic/blindness

Extractions: BodyLoad('s'); Results for blindness On this page: Select Article Sci-Tech Dict. World of the Body Thesaurus Antonyms Britannica Concise Columbia Ency. Veterinary Quotes About Wikipedia Citations Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Sci-Tech Dictionary: Also from Answers.com... Bladder Problems Find out the different types, and ways to overcome this common problem. document.getElementById("videoBox").style.display="block" â²blÄ«ndÂ·nÉs medicine ) Loss or absence of the ability to perceive visual images. The condition of a person having less than 1/10 (20/200 on the Snellen test) normal vision. ADVERTISEMENT InitForm('lookup1','autodiv1','down'); Library Arts Business Entertainment Food ... World of the Body: blindness Surprisingly, blindness rarely means total absence of light perception. Most definitions of blindness are based on measurement of visual acuity (the ability to read letters at a certain distance) and assessment of the ability of the person to carry out tasks needing vision. In the UK, the National Assistance Act 1948 states that a person can be certified as blind if they are âso blind that they cannot do any work for which eyesight is essentialâ. This rather circular definition refers to âany workâ and not just the person's normal job or one for which he has been specially trained. Visual acuity is usually tested by asking the patient to read letters of various sizes on a chart viewed from a distance of 6 m or 20 feet (the Snellen method ). Acuity is expressed as a fraction, the number on top referring to the distance at which a normal person can read a particular size of letter and the lower number the distance at which the subject being tested can read that size of letter. Hence ânormalâ visual acuity is 6/6 (European) or 20/20 (American). A person should be certified blind if the visual acuity (while wearing corrective glasses) is 3/60 or below (when a letter that can be recognized from 60 metres by a normal person can be identified only from 3 metres or closer). A person should also be certified blind if their acuity is between 3/60 and 6/60 but they have completely lost the peripheral part of their visual field, hence restricting their vision to the central part of the field. Indeed, if the more useful lower part of the visual field is lost then someone with better than 6/60 acuity can be certified blind.
Homes For Sale Apartments Dating At Mcwdn.org
A legally blind retired schoolteacher explains what blindness is and how it affects people. Includes a section of famous blind people.
http://www.mcwdn.org/Blind/BlindKidsMain.html
Blind Net's Home Page
Start finding out what blindness is and isn t by using the links on this page.
http://www.blind.net/blindind.htm

Extractions: Blind Net Thank you for clicking, surfing, searching and/or otherwise stopping by Blind Net. These pages will provide you with USEFUL and FACTUAL information about blindness; general information as well as links to organizations OF the Blind , those organizations FOR the Blind that work with us, some of the companies that provide equipment we use, and other resources . Be sure to bookmark this page for future reference; you can do this in most browsers by pressing Control and D. It should go without saying, but we'll say it anyway, that this is NOT a complete guide to sites on the Web. There are a number of reasons for this but the main one is the Web grows and changes so fast that keeping up is all but impossible. Also please remember a company or organization being listed here DOES NOT constitute an endorsement. Every site on the web reflects the views of its creators and or sponsors. It is no different here at Blind Net. If you realize that blind people are normal human beings who simply can't see and that we can do most anything a sighted person can do, (we just use alternative techniques), then you'll almost certainly like what you find here. We DO NOT have, "THE RIGHT ANSWERS", what we do have is a positive philosophy about blindness and it's related issues.
Blindness
blindness is the lack of vision, or a loss of vision that cannot be corrected with glasses or contact lenses. blindness may be partial, with very limited
http://www.healthscout.com/ency/1/003040.html

Extractions: loadcss('http://www.healthcentral.com/common/styles/ie/ie_healthscout_smallsearchbox.css', 'http://www.healthcentral.com/common/styles/nn/nn_healthscout_smallsearchbox.css'); Search Web Site Medline Get our free newsletter Special Offers TV Specials Learn about an Effective Alzheimer's Medication Bipolar Education Health Center Heart Valve Disease Health Center Osteoarthritis of the Knee Solution Center ... Schizophrenia Education Center Top Features Depression Schizophrenia Breast Cancer Bipolar Resources Healthscout News 3D Health Animations Health Videos Health Encyclopedia ... Drug Library Find a Therapist Enter City or Zip Code: Channels Home Today Women Men ... Drug Checker Medical Health Encyclopedia From Healthscout's partner site on alzheimer's disease , OurAlzheimers.com I need to know about Alzheimer's symptoms. What are the stages of Alzheimer's Disease? Learn about Alzheimer's medications. Injury ... Treatment Definition: Blindness is the lack of vision, or a loss of vision that cannot be corrected with glasses or contact lenses. Blindness may be partial, with very limited vision, or complete, with no perception of light. People with vision worse than 20/200, or a field of vision of less than 20 degrees in the better eye, are considered legally blind in most states in the U.S. Alternative Names:
Questions And Answers About Blindness And Vision Impairments In The Workplace An
Estimates vary as to the number of Americans who are blind and visually impaired. According to one estimate, approximately 10 million people in the United
http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/blindness.html

Extractions: The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability. Title I of the ADA makes it unlawful for any employer to discriminate against a qualified applicant or employee because of a disability in any aspect of employment. The ADA covers employers with 15 or more employees, including state and local governments. Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act provides the same protections for federal government employees and applicants. In addition, most states have their own laws prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of disability. Some of these state laws may apply to smaller employers and provide protections in addition to those available under the ADA. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces the employment provisions of the ADA. This is part of a series of question-and-answer documents addressing particular disabilities in the workplace. It explains how the ADA might apply to job applicants and employees with vision impairments. In particular, this document discusses:
Blindness Related Resources (Camera Obscura)
Index of blindness related resources on the web and beyond. Includes listings of homepages of blind individuals, organizations by and for the blind,
http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/blind.html

Extractions: on the Web and Beyond (last updated March 24, 2008) Adaptive Products and Services (includes screen readers, speech synthesizers, refreshable braille displays, braille embossers, etc. Home Pages of Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals Employment-Related Resources Educational Resources Pertaining to Blindness and Vision Loss ... Terra Infirma: Raw Links When I first mounted this page on my web site, Camera Obscura This is not , nor is intended to be, an encyclopedic index of blindness-related resources on the 'net... It is merely a collection of links that I have either come to rely upon personally or which I have stumbled across in the course of my own personal webcrawling. They are offered here merely as jumping-off points for the exploration of blindness-related resources, for following any one of the links listed on this page will open a Pandora's box of information. And that , my friends, is the true beauty of hypertext...
[Research To Prevent Blindness] Research To Prevent Blindness
As a major contributor to the comprehensive effort to treat, prevent and cure glaucoma, Research to Prevent blindness is joining with institutions and
http://www.rpbusa.org/

Extractions: Research News Read more... A dramatic new study, supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, questions some of the mechanisms underlying a new class of drugs based on Nobel Prize-winning work designed to fight diseases ranging from macular degeneration to... Read more... Two leading causes of blindness can be reversed or even prevented by drugs that activate a protein found in blood vessel cells. The discovery is an example of basic science research yielding a discovery with direct clinical applications. Read more... Read more... RPB Supports World Glaucoma Day RPB Supports Development of Device for Early Warning of Eye Disease Immune Cell Clues To Age-Related Macular Degeneration RPB Supports Breakthrough Finding In Eye Development, Eye Cancer ... var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); signal(window,"ondomload");
Banner Blindness: Old And New Findings (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
Users rarely look at display advertisements on websites. Of the 4 design elements that do attract a few ad fixations, one is unethical and reduces the value
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/banner-blindness.html

Extractions: Users rarely look at display advertisements on websites. Of the four design elements that do attract a few ad fixations, one is unethical and reduces the value of advertising networks. I've been reluctant to discuss one of the findings from our eyetracking research because the conclusion is that unethical design pays off In 1997, I chose to suppress a similar finding : users tend to click on banner ads that look like dialog boxes, complete with fake OK and Cancel buttons. Of course, instead of being an actual system message such as "Your Internet Connection Is Not Optimized" the banner is just a picture of a dialog box, and clicking its close box doesn't dismiss it, but rather takes users to the advertiser's site. Deceptive, unethical, and #3 among the most-hated advertising techniques . Still, fake dialog boxes got many more clicks than regular banners, which users had already started to ignore in 1997 After much soul-searching, I've now decided to take a different approach and publish our new findings, despite their ethical implications. In reality, it's not possible to suppress research results because anybody who bothers to run the study will get the same findings. There are
Ishihara Test For Color Blindness
I am color blind, as is about 12 20 percent (depending on whose figures you want to believe) of the white, male population and a tiny fraction of the
http://www.toledo-bend.com/colorblind/Ishihara.html

Extractions: Shareware software for the color blind ... Links to other Sites about Color Deficiency What numbers do you see revealed in the patterns of dots below? I am color blind, as is about 12 - 20 percent (depending on whose figures you want to believe) of the white, male population and a tiny fraction of the female population. Most of these circles are nothing but spots to me. Below are the correct answers to what a person with normal color vision would see - and what I see (and most people with Red-Green color blindness). When you see what we can't see, you may understand why it's so tough to find the right sox and why we like bright colors, which are often identifiable. Normal Color Vision Red-Green Color Blind Left Right Left Right Top Top Spots Middle Middle Spots Bottom Bottom Spots Spots Another interesting color blindness test is below The test to the left is simpler.
GUUUI - Navigation Blindness
Banner blindness is determined by navigation style. Posting added before you last visit at GUUUI, Banner blindness. Posting added before you last visit at
http://www.guuui.com/issues/01_05.php

Extractions: How to deal with the fact that people tend to ignore navigation tools Most web development projects put a lot of effort into the design of navigation tools. But fact is that people tend to ignore these tools. They are fixated on getting what they came for and simply click on links or hit the back button to get there. The navigation tools that have become standard on the web seem to be designed with the ambition to give users the option to go anywhere from everywhere. Menus with links to all the main sections are discretely placed to the left or at the top throughout the site and fold out and drop down to reveal where you are and where you can go. In this way, every page on a website becomes a major traffic junction, where road signs point you in all directions. But people have specific destinations in mind. Above all, they need clear signage along the way to their destinations. Two of the world's most well-respected usability experts Jakob Nielsen and Mark Hurst agree on at least one area: Users tend to ignore navigation and don't care where they are in a site structure. They are highly goal-driven and follow a very simple click-link-or-hit-back-button strategy when navigating websites.
Face Blind! Bill's Face Blindness (Prosopagnosia) Pages - Introduction
The world s only book about face blindness (prosopagnosia), the inability to tell people apart.
http://www.choisser.com/faceblind/

Extractions: This is the world's first (and to date only) book about face blindness. It has been published on the Internet so people in all lands can have access to it readily, and so it can be continuously updated. In these pages, you will find information, much of which is not available anywhere else at this time. Until people with this rare condition began to meet each other on the Internet in mid-1996, assembling this kind of information would not have been possible. Even researchers who have had hopes of specializing in this condition have been frustrated by having seen only a handful of subjects over a lifetime. With the advent of the Internet, face blind people are coming together in heretofore unheard of numbers, and much is being learned with each passing month. This document was first published as "Bill's Face Blindness Pages" in January, 1997, based on information learned in the fall of 1996. Since then, it has grown considerably, to become the document you will now see. Face Blind!

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