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Trigger for most common form of vision loss discovered

...blindness. “Almost 200 million people in the world have macular degeneration. If macular degeneration were a country, it would be the eighth most populated nation in the world. That’s how...

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THE ETHICAL FUTURE OF BIONIC VISION

...the ethical implications of ‘artificial’ sight? Curing blindness – at least in some of its many guises – with a prosthetic retina, also known as a bionic eye, has occupied...

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This Blind Painter Defies Limitations to Create Stunning Works of Art

...of blindness is of a person completely limited in all they do, you’re the one without vision. When John Bramblitt lost his sight, he thought his passion for painting would...

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Hair-Sized Stent Offers Hope For Patients Suffering From Glaucoma

A tiny new device could help prevent a leading cause of blindness. The glaucoma implant is the size of a human hair, and was just approved by the Food and...

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Happy birthday, Braille: how writing you can touch is still helping blind people to read and learn

Louis Braille, who was born on January 4, 1809, invented a tactile reading and writing system which transformed the lives of countless people with severe vision impairments or blindness. Braille...

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Olin College Students Think Outside of the Box with Accessibility

...Design course by to learn about the blindness community and how the Carroll Center services them.   These bright young students will take the knowledge they’ve learned here to design...

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Carroll Center for the Blind Seeks to Ease Nationwide Shortage of Vision Educators

...the Carroll Center that would also have a national impact with more effective solutions. The Carroll Interns program will recruit and train our future blindness and allied professionals and then...

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Robert Amendola

...in rehabilitation of the blind, was working with the US Army to develop a model rehabilitation program with a fundamentally new approach to the problems of blindness for the newly...

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Fencing

...were wonderfully balanced with his genuine interest and caring for helping each client at the Carroll Center to deal with adjusting to blindness. Learn how blind and visually impaired people...

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Blind People Can Struggle to Understand Memes, So They Made Their Own

...a woman holding a probing cane and looking at a phone went viral on Facebook after the poster implied that the subject was faking blindness given that she was clearly...