http://www.disabled-world.com/ Disability Community News and Information Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:41:52 PST en-us http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/gene-therapy-blind.php Vision Disability Study conducted by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Center for Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, used gene therapy to safely improve vision in five children and seven adults with Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA). Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:10:49 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/gene-therapy-blind.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/ocular-research-center.php Vision Disability As the first research center in the world to be directly combined with an eye bank, the Ocular Research Center provides a repository of healthy and diseased ocular tissue for researchers from academic institutions, government organizations and the pharmaceutical industry. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:16:19 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/ocular-research-center.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/eye-sty.php Vision Disability Hordeolum is the medical term for a sty, or stye, on the upper or lower eyelid. A sty near one or both eyes is caused by an acute infection (commonly staphylococcal bacteria) or inflammation of the secretory glands of the eyelids. Often, the lump (sty) appears with a white or yellow spot that looks much like a large hard pimple. Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:18:33 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/eye-sty.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/glassy-eyes.php Vision Disability Glassy eyes can be defined as a fixed staring and wide-eyed appearance with the eyes appearing to be glazed, or shiny. The term generally refers to an appearance of listlessness in which the eyes are unfocused and without lustre. Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:07:54 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/glassy-eyes.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/louis-braille.php Vision Disability There was a time when people believed that persons who are blind or visually impaired would never learn to read, thinking that the only way that a person could read was through looking at words with their eyes. A young French boy named Louis Braille believed otherwise... Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:37:00 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/louis-braille.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/visually-impaired-blind.php Vision Disability Being visually impaired means that your vision is either affected by visual problems such as having no peripheral vision, having very low eyesight while it is superior to 5% or having problems seeing in certain areas of your vision such as in front, in spots, not seeing in 3-D or in color, etc. Mon, 25 May 2009 17:45:12 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/visually-impaired-blind.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/blindness-facts.php Vision Disability 2009 is the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, the blind Frenchman who invented the raised-dot reading system bearing his name. Blindness has changed since Braille's day. Thanks to his work, the American dream and modern technology, blindness doesn't have to be a disabling condition. Sun, 24 May 2009 08:25:55 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/blindness-facts.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/preterm-eye-disease.php Vision Disability In the past 50 years it has been routine for all infants born very prematurely to be examined several times by ophthalmologists to identify children who need treatment for ROP, but this expensive method of screening can now perhaps be replaced by a considerably simpler and cheaper method. Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:12:41 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/preterm-eye-disease.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/glaucoma/developing-glaucoma.php Glaucoma Glaucoma is a frightening eye disease that slowly, methodically, and inconspicuously damages the optic nerve, the main cable from the eye to the brain, that allows you to see. This is an eye disease that is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness in the world. Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:11:11 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/glaucoma/developing-glaucoma.php http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/glaucoma/causes-treatment.php Glaucoma A discussion on immune response and its effect on glaucoma suggested that the response may initially slow the degeneration of the critical neurons, but the immunity protection itself may lead to problems if not properly controlled. The session called for more study about whether immune activity creates or worsens the neuron degeneration in glaucoma. Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:02:34 PST http://www.disabled-world.com/disability/types/vision/glaucoma/causes-treatment.php