We have schools FTB here but the key in Britain is "inclusion". Using our equipment kids and folks with misty (cataracts) or peripheral vision can work alongside their normally sighted friends. Did you know that the proportion of legally blind folks with no residual vision at all is 4%? That leaves 96%.... some are beyond the aid of our equipment and some not bad enough to need it but there's a load in between. Incidentally, folks with tunnel vision (central only) can usually read OK, but bump into things since lacking peripheral vision. Hence the guy with the dog & white stick reading a magazine on the Underground....who will tread on your feet. Those with peripheral only lack the central vision - the macular, where the detail perception is. They will look at you and see you...but they cannot see your head! (no loss in my case) This is a little superficial I grant but I fix units, and talk to customers...I'm not an eye specialist.
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Date: 2004-10-26 09:00 am (UTC)Using our equipment kids and folks with misty (cataracts) or peripheral vision can work alongside their normally sighted friends.
Did you know that the proportion of legally blind folks with no residual vision at all is 4%? That leaves 96%....
some are beyond the aid of our equipment and some not bad enough to need it but there's a load in between.
Incidentally, folks with tunnel vision (central only) can usually read OK, but bump into things since lacking peripheral vision. Hence the guy with the dog & white stick reading a magazine on the Underground....who will tread on your feet.
Those with peripheral only lack the central vision - the macular, where the detail perception is. They will look at you and see you...but they cannot see your head! (no loss in my case)
This is a little superficial I grant but I fix units, and talk to customers...I'm not an eye specialist.