In cases of functional or total blindness, other senses and skills must be emphasized or developed.
Sterr and colleagues (1998a, 1998b, 2003) showed that multifinger Braille readers with high tactile acuity showed increased frequency of mislocalization between the fingers used for Braille reading as compared to normal, sighted people, suggesting increased mislocalization was related to Braille reading skills rather than blindness in general.
From top to bottom, from frontbench to back office, high court to low life, hedge fund to doorstep, duck house to tax haven, website to cold call, cheating has become the norm, and moral blindness is the new life skill.
After months of testing, the various diagnoses began to roll in: blindness, undeveloped fine and gross motor skills, low muscle tone, autism, seizure disorders, speech delays.
Patients with dementia, cognitive impairments, active psychiatric disorders, blindness, deafness, or insufficient Italian language skills to meaningfully answer to the questions or without informed consent were excluded from this study.
Consultations only by home visits, residence in a nursing home, insufficient German language skills, severe illness, deafness, blindness, and lack of ability to provide informed consent were exclusion criteria.
Other exclusion criteria were inability to participate due to medical reasons (such as blindness and deafness), insufficient German language skills, residence in a nursing home, and inability to provide informed consent or participation in another ongoing study.
Pollock says that his blindness "forced me to reflect on the skills that I had and what I could and couldn't do.
In 1999, Phil and Tricia Milto learned that their son Nathan, who was then 4, had late infantile Batten disease, an extremely rare genetic syndrome that leads to blindness, mental deterioration, the loss of motor skills and, ultimately, death.
Lympsham C of E First School, Lympsham, Somerset: goalball equipment and coaching, developing students' skills with blindfolds and deepening their understanding of blindness.
