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Color Blind Person - Articles
Blind Leading the Blind in Personal Training Business
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John Izzo
Posted
Mon 23 Nov 2009 10:02pm
There is so much talk of entrepreneurs in personal training lately, that you can't help but want to find out more. The sheer idea of running your own business doing what you... or put out some "feelers" for people that are looking for personal training services. While on the site, I like to check out the fitness job section and read alot of the so-called
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Color blindness can be ...
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Ruth S.
Posted
Fri 24 Sep 2010 10:07am
Color blindness can be a disability, even though it is not a major one. Those who have it, green from red and those just happen to be the very two colors that are used for traffic lights, light gun signals, and navigational buoys.
But what exactly is color blindness and what causes it? Here is another article about
Color blindness
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The Jewish Guild for the Blind’s new Autism and Blindness Tele-Support Group
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Amanda
Posted
Sat 23 Oct 2010 12:23pm
The Jewish Guild for the blind would like to share with you a free resource for families of children who are autistic and vision impaired. In the United States, 1.8 million children under the age of 18 are blind or seriously visually impaired. The Jewish Guild for the Blind’s new Autism and Blindness Tele-Support Group provides free weekly
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Scientists Find a Cure For Colour Blindness
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Nick B.
Posted
Fri 18 Sep 2009 10:21pm
Genetic scientists have made a breakthrough discovery, capable of curing colour blindness - a condition that affects millions worldwide.
Scientists working on the project, from the University of Washington, in Seattle and the University of Florida, managed to cure two monkey’s colour blindness. The technique is expected to be suitable to restore
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The garden of the colour blind
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Sue S.
Posted
Mon 12 Apr 2010 11:20am
Imagine a world without colour. Imagine a garden without colour. Partial colour-blindness is fairly common - for example the red-green colour blindness that affects about... tint.
The neurologist Oliver Sacks' (remember Robin Williams and Robert de Niro in the film Awakenings?) describes the experience of total colour-blindness in one of his
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Am I going colour blind?
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Sue S.
Posted
Fri 21 Nov 2008 3:08pm
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Unfortunately I must be going colour blind, because all I can make out is the very, very slightest red blush around the tips of the petal - it's probably embarassment.
OK... display of lush spotted leaves, I've never yet had a flower. It's one of the large varieties and the flower should be white if it ever arrives, but I also like the smaller, coloured
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Chicago Lighthouse provides blind people toll-free tech support
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Ron Graham
Posted
Sun 24 Aug 2008 7:07pm
This is definitely a service worth noting.
Any blind person in the U.S. needing assistive technology help can call the toll-free Chicago Lighthouse assistive technology support line at 1 (888) 825-0080. This is for tech support regarding any software or hardware issues regarding assistive technology, just as long as the person is visually impaired
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