{"id":3821,"date":"2015-10-08T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T12:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2025-03-31T14:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:41:24","slug":"visual-impairments-separating-fact-from-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/visual-impairments-separating-fact-from-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Impairments: Separating Fact from Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"striped\">\n<p><strong>Worldwide, around 285 million people live with poor eyesight, with 1.7 million of these people located in the United Kingdom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"striped\">\n<p><!--more Read more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide, around 285 million people live with poor eyesight, with 1.7 million of these people located in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <span style=\"color: #008080;\"><a style=\"color: #008080;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iapb.org\/advocacy\/world-sight-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Sight Day<\/a><\/span>, a day of awareness held to increase the knowledge of blindness and different visual impairments.<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>NCC have partnered with <span style=\"color: #008080;\">Christopher Grange<\/span>, a care establishment who also run an award winning visual rehabilitation centre, to develop<span style=\"color: #008080;\"> a course<\/span> which provides information and understanding to sighted people so that they can better understand and assist visually impaired people.<\/p>\n<p>How many of the following myths about Visual Impairments did you believe?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worldwide, around 285 million people live with poor eyesight, with 1.7 million of these people located in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Visual-Impairment-Fact-from-Fiction.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Nick Cooper","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/author\/nccnickcooper\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42200,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions\/42200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncchomelearning.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}