Imagine riding your bicycle for 200 miles over three days. Shouldn’t anyone have a chance to do that? Thanks to the Blind Stokers Club of San Diego, several blind or visually impaired riders have the opportunity to ride on tandem bicycles. Each team of tandem riders includes a captain in the front and stoker in …
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Over the past month, we have been profiling blind or visually impaired runners who are getting ready to compete in this weekend’s race. The runners will compete in the California International Marathon this Sunday, December 2, in the blind division. VSP Vision Care is a major sponsor of the blind athletes, helping subsidize travel cost …
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October 11 is World Sight Day, focusing on preventing visual impairment or restoring sight. Today’s blog is a guest post by blind paralympic athlete Rob Matthews. Rob will be competing in the 2012 United States Association of Blind Athletes Marathon National Championships, which will be held on December 2 in Sacramento,California, as part of the California International …
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Did you know approximately 285 million people around the world suffer from low vision and blindness including 19 million children? Or that 90 percent of the blind population resides in low-income countries? The most astonishing fact I learned from Vision 2020 is 80 percent of visual impairment could have been avoided with proper treatment and preventative …
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San DiegoState University student Jeremy Poincenot has and extremely rare genetic disorder called Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy, or LHON. This inherited disorder causes loss of visual acuity (meaning vision gets blurry) and color vision. Poincenot had trouble keeping up in class because he could not see the items on the board the teachers were asking …
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With the 2012 Summer Olympics officially underway in London, did you catch the great story about South Korean archer Im Dong-Hyun, who set a world-record while having 20 percent normal vision in one eye and 30 percent in the other?! Congratulations, Im! Following Im’s amazing performance, I came across this New York Times article that …
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This past weekend, I was a guide runner for one of the visually impaired athletes in the California International Marathon. His name was Mr. Hooper, a retired U.S. Army veteran from Houston,Texas, and he was a member of the Unites States Association of Blind Athletes. I learned a lot about Mr. Hooper, including that he …
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