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- Blindness for Kids - A legally blind retired schoolteacher explains what blindness is and how it affects people. Includes a section of famous blind people.
- Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind - Information about New Zealand Foundation for the Blind, blindness issues, Guide Dog Services, Library Services for the Blind, Equipment for Blind people.
- NameBrand Blinds - Offers custom-made mini-blinds,wood blinds,vertical blinds, and cellular shades from Levolor, LouverDrape, Verosol, and Nanik.
- Arizona Council of the Blind - Primary concerns are blindness and daily problems which blind and visually impaired persons must over come whether the persons be a newborn child blinded by disease or adults newly blinded by accident.
- Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind - A nonprofit organization, providing jobs, training and vocational services for people who are blind, deaf-blind and muti-disabled blind. Offers a newsletter, list of services and programs, employment opportunities, and news releases.
- Premier Blinds - Specializing in internal blinds.
- Bumblebee Blinds - Providing velux window blinds, pleated blinds and wooden venetian blinds.
- The Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind - Information about blindness issues, guide dog services, library services for the blind, equipment for blind people.
- The Blind Readers Page - A source of information about books and reading, blindness and other disabilities and library services for the blind and physically handicapped.
- Tonband-Zeitung für Blinde - Blindenzeitungen und Pressedienst für Blinde und Sehbehinderte zum Hören. Informationen über Hilfen und Dienste.
Wikipedia Articles
- Blindness in literature - Different cultures through history have depicted blindness in a variety of ways; among the Greeks, for example, it was a punishment from the gods, for which the afflicted individual was often granted compensation in the form of artistic genius. Judeo-Christian literature positioned blindness as a flaw; only through a cure could God’s love be made manifest, when the scales would fall away from the eyes of an afflicted individual upon contact with a holy man or relic.
- Inattentional blindness - Inattentional blindness, Also known as "perceptual blindness" which is the phenomenon of not being able to see things that are actually there. This can be a result of having no internal frame of reference to perceive the unseen objects, or it can be the result of the mental focus or attention which cause mental ...
- Iris Fund for Prevention of Blindness - Fund for Prevention of Blindness is a British medical research charity dedicated to the prevention of blindness.
- Blindness (film) - Blindness is an upcoming film to be directed by Fernando Meirelles based on the 1995 novel Blindness by José Saramago. Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo star in the film, with Danny Glover narrating the story.
- Change blindness - In visual perception, change blindness is the phenomenon where a person viewing a visual scene apparently fails to detect large changes in the scene. For change blindness to occur, the change in the scene typically has to coincide with some visual, disruption such as a saccade (eye movement) or a brief obscuration of the observed scene or image.