Glaucoma causes damage to the optic nerve and is one of the leading causes of vision loss and blindness worldwide. Over 3 million Americans have glaucoma and experts estimate that half of them don’t even know they have it. *Source: National...
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With a heavy heart, Debra Celiz of Curtis Park decided not to go to her high school reunion several years ago when she started losing her vision. “I wanted to go and reconnect with friends because I knew I’d be coming back to the area, but I was...
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Society for the Blind was awarded a $5,000 Grant from MAXIMUS Foundation which will support Society for the Blind’s Transportation Program. Prevent Blindness America reports that twice as many seniors will have low vision or blindness by 2030. In...
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Pete Eckert – Viewing The World Differently “Occasionally people refuse to believe I am blind. I am a visual person. I just can’t see.” Pete Eckert has always been a visual person and had planned to study architecture at Yale until he was...
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Society for the Blind’s Shari Roeseler, Liz Culp and Shane Snyder were recently invited to visit Google HQ in Mountain View. The visit was part of Google’s ongoing efforts to make Google products and the world’s information accessible and...
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