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Color Matters: Vision: What Is Color Blindness?
Learn about the different types of color blindness and see a few simple tests that are used to diagnose this condition.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Could a Blind Eye Regenerate?
We tend to think of blindness as something you're born with, but with certain genetic diseases, it can actually develop when you're a kid, or even when you're an adult. But could blind eyes possibly regenerate? This video explains how...
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Nyise: Blindness Resource Center
Comprehensive hotlist links to resources for the blind. Topics include Internet access, braille, eye diseases, organizations, research, university programs for persons with disabilities, vendors, and more.
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American Foundation for the Blind: Assistive Technology Products
In this section, you will find a comprehensive listing of assistive technology products used by people who are blind or visually impaired organized by category.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Proect Ideas: Investigating Inattentional Blindness
The goal of this human behavior science fair project is to investigate inattentional blindness and visual perception and see what percentage of a test population notices an unexplained object in a video. The Science Buddies project ideas...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: 19th Century Schools for the Deaf, Blind
This collection uses primary sources to explore the development of schools for deaf and blind students in the nineteenth century.
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The Vision Learning Center: Color Blindness
Page with facts about color blindness. Provides good questions and good feedback about this eye condition and what treatments are available.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Color Blindness
This site from the Encyclopedia Wikipedia provides information on the condition of color blindness, including different types of color deficiencies, a discussion on the causes of color blindnes, images, and more.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: The Courtesy of the Blind
In this seven-stanza poem, the poet writes about the experience of reading her poetry to the blind. She grows increasingly uncomfortable as they cannot see the images in her words, yet they are courteous to a fault and smile and applaud...
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology: Color Blindness Problem Set
This problem set is based on a question received from a woman with red-green color blind as well as other members of her family. She wanted to know if we could help her understand how she inherited her color blindness.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Old Eyes = Blind Eyes?
The Why? Files have provided information about a troubling disease causing blindness. Characteristics of AMD and treatment options are explored.
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National Center on Deaf Blindness
Site consists of an extensive library of materials, and information specialists to help serve children who are deaf-blind.
World Wide School
World Wide School: Etext of "The Country of the Blind"
This site provides the complete etext for H. G. Wells's story, "The Country of the Blind."
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American Foundation for the Blind: Anne Sullivan Macy: Miracle Worker
An extensive biography of Anne Sullivan Macy, who pioneered techniques for teaching the blind and deaf through her work with Helen Keller. Includes many images and primary source documents, such as letters. Anne had a difficult...
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American Foundation for the Blind: Blindness and Low Vision
Blindness or visual impairment can have a profound impact on one's life. This organization provides a great deal of helpful information about resources that will assist the visually impaired person to lead a normal, productive life.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: A Curable Condition That Causes Blindness
Andrew Bastawrous gives the facts on cataracts and blindness. [4:23]
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Making a Car for Blind Drivers
Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It's not a "self-driving" car, he's careful to note, but a car in which a non-sighted driver can determine speed,...
Read Works
Read Works: Three Blind Mice
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read the song lyrics to "Three Blind Mice." A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Three Blind Mice
[Free Registration/Login Required] This short literary text passage is the nursery rhyme about three blind mice. This passage is intended for guided practice and is designed to reinforce essential reading comprehension skills.
Read Works
Read Works: Device May Help Blind People See
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a new device that can give sight to people blinded because of retinal damage. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
CommonLit
Common Lit: The Blind Men and the Elephant
A learning module that begins with the poem "The Blind Men and the Elephant" by John Godfrey Saxe, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Blind Spot: To See, or Not to See
The blind spot in human vision is described and illustrated.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Blind Spot
Did you know that there is a part of your eye that does not give you any visual information? In this activity learn about this part of the retina called the "blind spot".
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Tsbvi: Information About Color and Color Blindness
Provides a list of links about color blindness. Split into two categories: living with color blindness, and color blindness tests and simulations.
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