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  2. Visual impairment - Wikipedia

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    Legally blind indicates that a person has less than 20/200 vision in the better eye after best correction (contact lenses or glasses), or a field of vision of less than 20 degrees in the better eye. Totally blind students learn via braille or other non-visual media.

  3. A new surgery can give legally blind people 20/20 vision - AOL

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    Within a few months, almost all patients went from having an average of 20/1290 vision to 20/20 vision! Even more amazing, the amount of time between the trauma and the treatment didn't seem to ...

  4. Snellen chart - Wikipedia

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    The largest letter on an eye chart often represents an acuity of 6/60 (20/200), the value that is considered "legally blind" in the US. Many individuals with high myopia cannot read the large E without glasses, but can read the 6/6 (20/20) line or 6/4.5 (20/15) line with glasses. By contrast, legally blind individuals have a visual acuity of 6/ ...

  5. ACT Confirms Clinical Trial Participant Showed Improvement in ...

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    ACT Confirms Clinical Trial Participant Showed Improvement in Vision from 20/400 to 20/40 Following Treatment MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. ...

  6. Jake Gyllenhaal reveals how being legally blind has improved ...

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  7. Recovery from blindness - Wikipedia

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    The question was originally posed to him by philosopher William Molyneux, whose wife was blind: [2] Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and the other, which is the cube, which is the sphere.

  8. Jake Gyllenhaal Says Being Legally Blind Has Been ... - AOL

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    Jake Gyllenhaal is opening up about how being legally blind has impacted his career. ... Gyllenhaal, who has 20/1250 vision, explained that he did so in order to listen more closely while shooting.

  9. Rachael Scdoris - Wikipedia

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    Her vision is 20/200, and she is totally color blind. In 1997, Scdoris competed her first dog sled race, and placed 4th in the Frog Lake Race, and later won several local short-distance races. In 2001, she competed in the 500 mile ( 805 km ) International Pedigree Stage Stop Sled Dog Race, and became the first legally blind person and the ...