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Callan Mulvey – (an actor seen in various series as Rush and in movies like Batman Vs Superman) has lost the sight in one eye during an accident. Geraldine Lawhorn – one-woman show performer in New York City. Marilee Talkington – a low vision actress and activist with a retinal disease who starred in See, NCIS, and New Amsterdam. [19]
Worked on applications to make the Internet more accessible to colorblind people. [26] Matt Holland: red–green b. 1974 England Ireland: Association football player [27] Richard Hughes: red–green b. 1975 England: Musician, member of Keane [28] Jake Humphrey: red–green b. 1978 England: TV presenter, journalist
As of 2015, there were 940 million people with some degree of vision loss. [5] 246 million had low vision and 39 million were blind. [1] The majority of people with poor vision are in the developing world and are over the age of 50 years. [1] Rates of visual impairment have decreased since the 1990s. [1]
Eric John Arnott (12 June 1929 – 1 December 2011) [1] [2] was a British ophthalmologist and surgeon who specialized in cataracts, a condition which in many parts of the world still remains the principal cause of blindness.
In spite of the surgery on his right eye, his newly regained vision, after blindness of forty years, is not fully recovered. Thinus-Blanc and Gaunet (1997) suggest that early blinded people show limited ability in spatial representation. Michael still struggles to identify pictures or illustrations.
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James Holman FRS (15 October 1786 – 29 July 1857), known as the "Blind Traveller," was a British adventurer, author and social observer, best known for his writings on his extensive travels.
In 1967, Ridley set up the Ridley Foundation, known as the Ridley Eye Foundation, [15] to raise funds for cataract surgery in developing countries and to treat avoidable blindness. [4] A registered charity under English law, [16] the organisation continues to be active in these fields today, notably in the Middle East. Ridley's son Nicholas ...