My Experience On Blank 3

Suddenly losing his eyesight at a young age and having to deal with living in a whole new world, Marcus Engel tells his story of how he coped with losing his eyesight. Marcus Engel described his hardships and struggles after he became blind in his book, After This…An Inspirational Journey for All the Wrong Reasons. The book begins with Engel mentioning his college life and how he was excited to be going back home for vacation. While he was with his friends he got into a bad car accident that left him blind. The rest of the book tells his emotional life changing story of how he learned to accept his blindness and to do daily tasks. In his stay at the hospital he made a goal to get back to college.

If a person can’t see they find a way to function through the day with a Seeing Eye dog or reading with Braille knowledge, and if a person is unable to hear they are able to function at a very high level through the use of sign language and reading lips.

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

Deaf-blind can also use a screen Braille communicator, a small portable device that enables them to communicate with sighted people. Alternate communication is print on palm, the person communicating with the deaf-blind person prints large block letters on the other persons hand. Each letter is written in the same location on the persons hand. This is a way for the deaf-blind to communicate with the public.

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.

Many individuals learn using a combination of styles. After considering all aspects of my patient I created my teaching plan to benefit visual, auditory, and tactile learners. My plan included an informative brochure that I created at a reading level suitable for my patient and visual aids consisting of tables such as “My Plate,” nutrition labels, and certain foods to avoid. The visual aids were necessary for my patient’s literacy level

Louis Braille become blind after accidentally stabbing himself in the eye with a tool. Both his eyes became infected and he couldn’t see at all as a young child in 1814. As a twelve year old he invented braille, a way for the blind to read using raised dots. Later he brought this way of reading to a school for the blind in Paris. The director of the school Dr. Pignier (a supporter of braille who also helped develop braille) was forced to retire. His assistant Pierre-Armand Dufau became the director. Three years later Louis Braille was forced to return to his home town of Coupvray when he came down will tuberculosis. When he returned he found that Dufau had banned all students from reading braille books, and Dufau had burned seventy-three books at the school. Dufau believed that braille gave visually impaired people too much freedom and if it continued there would be no use of seeing teachers at the institute. If not for a few teachers who kept braille books secretly and kept teaching braille to students braille could have disappeared

Davis, J. (2013). What Can you do to Help Students with Visual Impairments. Educational News , 26-32.

I had noticed that her eye moved a little slower and reflected light differently, so, consumed by curiosity, I let her continue. “When I was about four years old,” Annabelle elaborated, “I had cancer called Retinoblastoma and had surgery to remove my eye.” I was stunned; we had known each other for over a year and never had she indicated that she could only see with one eye. Fascinated by her resilience and inspired by her continually positive attitude, Annabelle marked the beginning of my decision to become a Pediatric

According to Halder (2012), communication by writing can be appropriate for communicating basic needs, but not for discussing important medical conditions and medications. Deaf people who communicate with BSL can have a difficult time understanding written English because BSL has different word structure. For healthcare facilities, “The gold standard for communication with deaf people is the use of a level four BSL interpreter who has been accredited as such by the Council of the Advancement of Communication with Deaf People” (Halder, 2012, p. 19). Using family members as translators can be unethical by breaking confidentiality. Having patient repeat information in his or her own words is a good practice for healthcare professionals, making sure the patient understands interpreter and important information given to

Meet Mason (The Family Center on Technology and Disability and PACER Center, 2012) was an interesting video. Mason uses a very interesting piece of technology that allows him to communicate through typing in Braille. In addition, the device says the letter that the student has pressed. Mason’s mom hopes that using the device will help Mason when he starts to read more material in Braille in higher grades .The Mountbatten Brailler was a very interesting device. From what I gathered from this video Mason is receiving early interventions and training on Braille, which will help him when he starts reading books in Braille to follow along with his classmates in upper grades. The Mountbatten Brailler allows for Mason to participate in writing assignments (The Family Center on Technology and Disability and PACER Center, 2012).

Amblyopia is described by; Levi, Knill and Bavelier (2015) as a neurodevelopmental disorder of the visual cortex. A disorder characterised by Rose (1998) as the “silent thief”, a term that purportedly portrays the consequences of amblyopia going undetected. Amblyopia has been reported as the most common cause of monocular blindness worldwide Wong (2012), and in a recent review conducted by (Tailor, Bossi, Greenwood and Dahlmann-Noor, 2016) was cited the most common visual deficit among children in the UK. Bretas and Soriano (2016) describe amblyopia as the result of visual deprivation due to impaired binocular function. An impairment thought typical of the two most commonly proposed underlying causal factors; strabismus and

As a person with a major visual impairment myself, I found the first video fascinating. In the video the audience is introduced to Mason, a 6-year-old boy, whom is completely blind in one eye and has only partial vision in the other. His overall visual acuity is approximately 20/300 versus the standard visual acuity of 20/20. In the video the types of technology introduced and discussed were the Mountbatten Brailler, iPad, and a Smart Board. A Mountbatten Brailler is a type of Braille machine, which in a traditional braille machine that has been equipped with audio as well as word processing capabilities. It’s particularly useful for children because of the audio responses. Mason also utilized an iPad at home and in school as an additional education tool because of the capabilities to run education games and increase the size of text and images to make it

Visually impaired kids should never be discriminated from attaining quality education. If the right procedure is adapted in delivery of information or rather education to such students, they will equally possess the same level of education as normal children. The procedure of teaching a blind

Louis Braille, Helen Keller, and Stevie Wonder. Names known to the world, some more famous than others, some maybe not known at all. One commonality these names have is that each one of these individual’s lives were affected with a visual impairment. Braille Works provides information on the individuals listed above. “Louis Braille became blind after an accidental stabbing incident in his father’s workshop.” (Braille Works). Louis Braille didn’t let the accident determine the rest of his life, instead became the inventor of braille writing. Braille writing is a series of raised dots for visually impaired individuals to feel instead of seeing the words written out. Helen Keller is a name people hear of often, but is her success story truly