Sentence examples for impaired world from inspiring English sources

The Kent-based player came to wider prominence in 2010 by becoming Britain's first visually impaired world champion for 12 years, adding World Games gold that year.

Thornhill successfully defended her 1km visually impaired world title alongside pilot Helen Scott, with whom she claimed Commonwealth gold last year.

In the Hearing Impaired world, interpreters have The Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (www.rid.org).org

Especially useful for sports day are the suggestions for team-based athletics events, and an amazing game called goalball that was originally developed for visually impaired second world war veterans.

The original idea for the shoe was actually to help the visually impaired navigate the world around them.

Their aim is to graduate from an MVP to an app that's in the hands of the visually impaired "across the world", says Rizzoli, with an algorithm that "recognizes all the objects that they need to navigate their life".

In 2002 the World Health Organisation estimated that more than 161 million people were visually impaired around the world of which 37 million were blind [ 1, 2].

The overall performance of the screening procedure was, however, impaired by 'real-world' practical and organisational difficulties.

Susan Lerner Executive Director, Common Cause/New York New York, March 13 , 2008• To the Editor: Re "Reaching Out, Paterson Offers Different Tone" (front page, March 14): As the president of the Hadley School for the Blind, I believe that David A. Paterson is an inspiration for all blind, deaf-blind and visually impaired people around the world.

Quilter, who won the -60kg world visually impaired title last year, made it a second gold-medal success with victory over his Japanese opponent.

Jason, who is visually impaired, goes into the World Championships as the fastest Paralympic athlete on the planet with a best of 10.46 seconds, although he has run 10.22 seconds in sighted competition, and he will want to show everyone that he is the one they have to beat.