Visual Impairments: Separating Fact from Fiction

Worldwide, around 285 million people live with poor eyesight, with 1.7 million of these people located in the United Kingdom.

Worldwide, around 285 million people live with poor eyesight, with 1.7 million of these people located in the United Kingdom.

Today is World Sight Day, a day of awareness held to increase the knowledge of blindness and different visual impairments.

On this day, people around the globe work together to improve public knowledge on different conditions, demonstrate the issues that come with having a visual impairment and also work to educate people on how best to prevent the risk of developing an impairment in the future. With around 80% of visual impairments being classed as avoidable, through treatment or prevention, more and more people will be safeguarded against visual impairments

NCC have partnered with Christopher Grange, a care establishment who also run an award winning visual rehabilitation centre, to develop a course which provides information and understanding to sighted people so that they can better understand and assist visually impaired people.

How many of the following myths about Visual Impairments did you believe?