Vision Aides for Blindness


For people with total blindness, brail computers, typewriters, and books can help ease the transition into coping with vision loss. Guide dogs and specially marked canes can help with mobility while methods such as counting steps, learning how to navigate new spaces through touch or with a cane, and how to rely on hearing or touch more than sight can all help a person learn how to live with blindness.

For those with low vision, magnified glasses, specially recorded books, computer software which reads text aloud from the screen, lenses which filter light, large-print documents, and magnified clocks, telephones, and watches can all make seeing more manageable.  Some people with low vision may also require canes or guide dogs.

Canes can be used both to indicate blindness and to help a blind person or a person with low vision ‘feel’ their way around. These are generally long, thin, white canes which can be marked with other colours to indicate deafness. 

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