Word: sightlessness
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...1940s, hundreds of premature infants, though saved by incubators, were stricken with retrolental fibroplasia and blindness because of an overexposure to oxygen. As these children grew to school age, the integration movement finally got going in earnest. Today, scores of cities across the U.S. are now giving sightless children a full chance at a normal schooling...
...Matthew are agreed that if the blind lead the blind, both will wind up in the ditch.† In The Fourth World, Novelist Daphne Athas does more than underwrite the common sense of the Gospels. She digs a fictional ditch big enough to hold both the sighted and the sightless, and the world into which she leads the reader would seem simply nightmarish if it did not also ring simply true...
...Novelist's Eye. When she is with her sightless children, Author Athas can be fascinating. Their wide-ranging imaginations, their fantastic sixth sense, these most difficult things are precisely the ones she records best. The tragedy of her teen-age hero and heroine, compounded by a weirdly accidental death and the girl's pregnancy, is moving without a single assist from sentimentality. But what remains finally is a careful delineation of a world that could not be imagined from passing any number of the blind on the street. It is possible that most Dr. Augusts will...
...away, her story was retold at a special ceremony in Philadelphia. There, as part of the city's Education Week for the Blind, Genevieve Caulfield received in absentia a small, belated, but much deserved reward: a plaque for her "great contribution in the field of education of the sightless...
...project that he hoped would bring laughter and joy to such people. He called it Discojos Mexicanos, from discos (records) and ojos (eyes). Through it, he wanted to record songs and stories on twelve-inch long-playing records that would be distributed free to Mexico's sightless...