Introduction The American Foundation for the blind is an American nonprofit organization for people with with vision loss. The American Foundation for the Blind sees a world where blind people have equal access and opportunities to excel at school, at work, and in their communities. American Foundation for the Blind helps blind people by giving them opportunities by letting them earn scholarships online, sending transcripts to them and they will find you a college, send you letters of Recommendation. AFB is a great organization for whomever is blind.
Main Idea #1 Paragraph How will AFB help People with Loss of Eye sight? AFB will help people that are blind by giving them opportunities that other blind organizations …show more content…
Another way you could become blind is by being diabetic, the only way to get blind from being diabetic is lie over time your high blood sugar levels lead to damage of your retina which captures images and sends them as nerve signals to the brain. Another way you could become blind is having cataracts, Cataracts is where the eye becomes blurry and you just can’t see over a certain amount of time. There are a lot of different ways to becoming blind, but the most rare way to get blind is called Macular Degeneration. The Macular Degeneration is basically for once you get older like 60 years or older it is a leading cause of vision loss. Macular is a disease which sharpens and destroys central vision to see objects clearly. So this means you wouldn’t be able to see faces or read, drive, watch anything that is T.V. related, and routine daily …show more content…
One sport or activity that a blind person can do is rock climbing or like snow climbing since there kind of the same thing. They need a lot of different things to do while doing this sport. First they will need a trainer or just someone to help them find a way to have the skills that the person doing it has. Secondly they will need different personalities like being patient, having the skills to follow there instructors voice so they’ll need good listening skills. Blind people can do so many things that people that aren’t blind can do. Some people that are a real influence on Blind people are Helen Keller and Erik Weihenmayer. Helen Keller influenced Blind people by first of all being the first person to be blind and deaf at the same time Helen Keller accomplished so much that so many people didn’t think she would do, Helen Keller was the first blind person to ever go to college and write books and be such a inspiration to Blind people still to this day. Another person who influenced Blind people is Erik Weihenmayer, Erik was the first blind person to ever climb Mount Everest and Kayak the grand Canyon
Main Idea #1 Paragraph How will AFB help People with Loss of Eye sight? AFB will help people that are blind by giving them opportunities that other blind organizations …show more content…
Another way you could become blind is by being diabetic, the only way to get blind from being diabetic is lie over time your high blood sugar levels lead to damage of your retina which captures images and sends them as nerve signals to the brain. Another way you could become blind is having cataracts, Cataracts is where the eye becomes blurry and you just can’t see over a certain amount of time. There are a lot of different ways to becoming blind, but the most rare way to get blind is called Macular Degeneration. The Macular Degeneration is basically for once you get older like 60 years or older it is a leading cause of vision loss. Macular is a disease which sharpens and destroys central vision to see objects clearly. So this means you wouldn’t be able to see faces or read, drive, watch anything that is T.V. related, and routine daily …show more content…
One sport or activity that a blind person can do is rock climbing or like snow climbing since there kind of the same thing. They need a lot of different things to do while doing this sport. First they will need a trainer or just someone to help them find a way to have the skills that the person doing it has. Secondly they will need different personalities like being patient, having the skills to follow there instructors voice so they’ll need good listening skills. Blind people can do so many things that people that aren’t blind can do. Some people that are a real influence on Blind people are Helen Keller and Erik Weihenmayer. Helen Keller influenced Blind people by first of all being the first person to be blind and deaf at the same time Helen Keller accomplished so much that so many people didn’t think she would do, Helen Keller was the first blind person to ever go to college and write books and be such a inspiration to Blind people still to this day. Another person who influenced Blind people is Erik Weihenmayer, Erik was the first blind person to ever climb Mount Everest and Kayak the grand Canyon