Eye Conditions
A clouding of the lens of the eye which leads to a decrease in vision.
Cataract
Know worldwide for being the teacher and companion of Helen Keller this person was also visually impaired.
Anne Sullivan
An African-american singer, songwriter, pianist, and composer.
Ray Charles
This group was founded in 1961 but many of is state affiliates can be traced back to the 1880s.
American Counsel of the Blind-ACB
Vision aids consisting of glass or hard plastic lenses mounted in a frame.
Glasses
A disease that damages your eye's optic nerve. It usually happens when fluid builds up in the front part of your eye. That extra fluid increases the pressure in your eye, damaging the optic nerve.
Glaucoma
A reduced ability to distinguish between certain colors.
Color Blindness
An American author, activist, and lecturer who was the first deaf/blind person to graduate college.
Helen Keller
Founded in 1940 this group considers itself the oldest and largest nationwide organization of blind Americans.
National Federation of the Blind-NFB
This device allows its user to scan their surroundings for obstacles or orientation marks.
White Cane
The leading cause of vision loss, affecting more than 10 million Americans – more than cataracts and glaucoma combined.
Maculuar Degeneration
A health issue characterized by insomnia and sleeping at odd times during the day.
Non-24- Hour Sleep-Wake Disorder
The only president of the United States who served more than 2 terms.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Founded in 1982 this group is a non-profit organization that assists people who have albinism.
National Organization for Albinism and Hypopigmentation. Noah
Assistive technology that converts text, buttons, images, and other elements into speech or braille.
Screen Reader
A temporary or permanent visual impairment caused by the disturbance of the posterior visual pathways and/or the occipital lobes of the brain.
Cortical Visual Impairment-CVI
A french educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for use by the blind or visually impaired.
Louis Braille
An American rapper, singer, and songwriter who rose to prominence after his debut single Trap Queen.
Fetty Wap
U.S. non profit organization that was established to help veterans and their families meet and overcome the challenges of blindness.
Blind Veterans Association -BVA
This AT provides people who ate blind or visually impaired with the capacity to scan printed text and then have it spoken in synthetic speech or saved to a computer file.
OCR- Optical Character Recognition
A rare genetic disorder caused by a mutation in any one of a least 11 genes resulting in a combination of hearing loss and visual impairment.
Usher Syndrome
The Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind was founded in this year
1858
An abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union Spy during the civil war.
Harriet Tubman
An American non-profit organization for people with vision loss was. It was founded in 1921 as a national clearing house for information about vision loss and a forum for discussion for blindness serving professionals.
American Foundation for the Blind
A pair of vision-enhancement lenses that are used to improve distance vision which in turn gives some people with low vision the opportunity to drive.
Bioptics/Biopotic Glasses