blindness

Teaches comprehension strategies and vocabulary through a study of how the blind are able to achieve amazing feats and skills despite their disability.

Discusses the causes and effects of blindness, and shows how individuals cope and adapt to the challenge of being blind.

Informative text, photographs, and real-life stories describe eye injuries and diseases that cause blindness and how they are treated and offer tips on eye safety.

Explains how the eye works and examines the causes of blindness and other eye disorders. Also discusses eye care and how to cope with impaired eyesight.

Presents a story that provides insights into the challenges faced by children suffering with visual impairments and blindness, and the impact of the disability on family members and friends, and features facts about different types of vision problems, their diagnosis, treatment, and the adjustments that are required to live with them.

Discusses one major problem of blindness--the sighted people who fear or misunderstand this handicap.

Discusses blindness and how those afflicted by it overcome this handicap.

Translation of a Portuguese novel about the chaos that ensues when a city is struck with an epidemic of blindness in which its victims see only white.

This book introduces diseases of the eyes that can lead to a loss of sight, such as glaucoma, cataracts, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy, as well as diseases that do not specifically infect the eyes, and describes treatments and aids to blindness.