Visual impairment - Anti Bullying Alliance

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Devil are two blind characters who have
devices to help them see. This may
soon not be fiction.
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The proportion of people with
visual impairment increases with age
and is caused by many factors.
In the early 1 900s, blind
people began to become
more independent, with
government support, rather
than relying on charity.
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people who were blind
were often excluded from
ordinary life, or
revered. They were
sometimes
killed, or left to
fend for themselves
as beggars.
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dots in a code which has
become the main method of
written communication for
blind people.
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Blind people's vision in the eye is
severely reduced. This can be related
to the field of vision or detail or both.
In England, there are 1 43,385 people
registered as blind. 3,540 are of
school age. Most attend mainstream
schools with support and are helped
to succeed.
Louis Braille had an
accident that led to him
being blind. He invented a
new raised code for
letters based on a “night
writing” used by the
French army.