Charlie Rose Segmentation About Visual Perception

1) According to Dillard, lovers and the knowledgeable can see well. Yet she also suggests that those who are knowledgeable on a topic, such as people who have been blind from birth and can suddenly see (due to an opperation), can perhaps view more objectively the world around them, and see it in a way that those with vision from birth cannot. Infants, she says, can see very clearly, for they are viewing the world for the first time, and can observe the colors and the light with no prejudgments, but we forget this experience as we grow older, and only occasionally catch glimpses of this phenomenon.

One service user who was blind was hard to settle, because he couldn’t see it was hard to communicate, he was unable to express himself verbally and he was very anxious and depressed. He had moved from Bala where he was brought up many years ago

Losing your sight at a later stage in life can create acceptance difficulties and the need to learn a new method of communication.

Children who have visual impairment usually have some vision; this can vary from each child. Some children may be able to see outlines of objects while others may only be able to tell the difference between light and dark. If a child has vision problems this nearly always initially delays their physical development. Their gross and fine motor skills would be affected because they would be unable to be as adventurous as children with good vision. Fine motor skills may not be in line with other children as the child would find it hard to do tasks that require precision such as threading beads or colouring a picture. Cognitive and language skills would also be affected, even if the child was able to read it would take longer to learn especially if it involved using braille. With the right interventions in place there is no reason why a child with visual impairment would not be able to catch up with their peers.

Vision may impact on a child’s life when they are going though their development but not much as they could wear Glasses or contacts and the only time it would cases a problem is if the child brakes, looses, forgets to bring them with the child or forgets to puts them in their eyes.

Our eyes connect to the optic nerve that connects to our brain where image are processed. Even though the eye is just one part of the human body it feeds so much knowledge to the body of what is occurring around us. Our eyes are able to influence our memories and it is one of the most complex organ in our body. It is so fascinating that we all have a blind spot in our vision, however none of us has ever notice it because our eyes work together to fill in the blind spots for each other. If it was possible to notice our blind spot it would disrupt our vision.

However if a person is able to know his surroundings and is able to create a visual imagery, the earlier accepted meaning for “seeing” seems quite misleading. What better way would there be than to take an example of a blind person. Zoltan Torey, was one of Sacks’ case study, did things that Sacks says might be impossible for a blind man. Torey who had been blinded later in his life was eventually able to perform intricate tasks with ease. Sacks says that Torey is able to construct, “a virtual visual world that seemed as real and intense to him as the perceptual one he had lost-indeed, sometimes more real and intense” (332).

The individuals that were blind viewed their disability as a liability. In the first video, the girl felt restricted because she didn't know how to operate in the real world. In the second video, the girl felt very overwhelmed when she was in the big store trying to find different things. In the third video, the family felt like they didn't know how the were supposed to live their own lives with their son's disability. However, each situation adapted and learned how to live life in this way.

Meanwhile, in The Mind’s Eye, Sacks tells various anecdotes from individuals who have to their own unique ways to cope with blindness. Sacks describes understanding as independent to the individual. While each person goes through blindness, not every person will go through the adversity in the same way. First, Sacks explains John Hull’s story of how his blindness affected life.

Many people make an assumption they are not blind to life itself whether ignorance plays a part or pride. In Cathedral by Raymond Carver, it describes a few myths that society has portrayed and opinions of the visual impaired. The main focus is getting to know the person before drawing a conclusion. Its not fair to anyone to be neglected whether you are visual impaired or have the functionality of what is considered to be a normal human being.

As vital organ of vision, the eye, allows us to learn more about the world around us more than any other organ or senses. Sight, the physical sensory experience and vision, the metaphysical concept of how our brain interprets images both work harmoniously and play a huge role in our everyday lives. However, almost a billion people are either blind or visually impaired simply due to not having a pair of glasses. Being able to lead people in the direction of good vision is what developed my interests.

She discusses those who have recently acquired the ability to see and how this affects how they interpret the new world around them. With no preconceived knowledge or ideas about what they are seeing, “vision is pure sensation unencumbered by meaning” (24). While our minds use what we already know to interpret and comprehend what we see, those who see for the first time have no previous knowledge telling them what they are looking at. Their minds are blank canvases, interpreting each line, shape, and shadow, attempting to piece every aspect of what their eyes are seeing to understand the full picture. While we would simply glance at an object, allowing our mind to fill in the details of what we are seeing based on the image we already have in our minds, the newly sighted do not have the ability to see in concepts as we do. Most of us cannot “remember ever having seen without understanding” (27) yet we still have the ability to learn how to see like this to an extent. Artistic talent aside, upon asking a newly sighted person and an artistically untrained person who had been seeing their whole life to draw the same object, the newly sighted person would have the ability to draw what they were truly seeing while the average person would draw what they knew they were seeing, ignoring the true shape and shadows of the object in front of them. Upon asking someone who has been trained

I’ve come to understand why having access to institutions or facilities that can provide adequate sight and vision treatments is necessary. Being in America we’re blinded by an abundance of luxuries. We take the small things in life for granted and feel as if they should be handed to us with a silver spoon. What about the child in India who doesn’t have the opportunity to visit care centers to examine his or her eyes? What about the homeless and orphan children in Russia that can’t afford to see a doctor about their blurred vision? Who’s going to help out the child of the native lands that lives too far from the nearest medical care clinic but just severely injured his or her eye? All of these things are real life situations and real life problems that less developed countries face as they struggle to obtain funding or even educators who can routinely and professionally provide the necessary

When lacking the physical trait of sight not only do the other five senses enhance, but their imagination can too. It is a choice whether to live in darkness and suffocate in the blindness one was born with, or to still chase a life of color through different venues. Helen Keller, though she was blind and deaf, saw beautiful sights without the ability to see. Although she did not possess any working eyes or ears she had imagination. By not physically seeing the world in its imperfect beauty she was able to create her own world in utter perfection, “...more incredible still, the strange grass and skies the blind behold are greener grass and bluer skies than ordinary eyes see” (paragraph 6).