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Blind 11-Year-Old Will Compete In National Spelling Bee

By Riddhi Shah May 17th 2012 - 02:39PM

On May 30, Richelle Zampella, an 11-year-old from Oklahoma, will compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C.

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Family Of Dougie Dillon, 20 Months Old And Blind, Fight To Give Him Sight (How You Can Help)

By The Huffington Post News Editors May 04th 2012 - 02:11PM

Doctors told the Dillon family that their newborn son Dougie's shuttering eyes were common -- that babies are born virtually blind anyway, and that his sight would come soon.

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LG gives away 2,000 specially modified phones for the blind

By Terrence O'Brien Apr 27th 2012 - 09:05PM

Skipping on the LTE, HD IPS screen or dual-processor is usually not a recipe that will land your phone on the pages of Engadget.

eye care News From the Web

  • 06/02/12 Graffiti begone Source: mySA - San Antonio TX The San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists has extended its scholarship application deadline to Friday.
  • 06/02/12 Lighthouse for the Blind gets $150,000 gift Source: mySA The Meadows Foundation, a private philanthropy based in Dallas, recently announced a gift of $150,000 to the San Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind, to be applied toward a $3.5 million capital campaign for construction of a 60,000-square-foot multipurpose facility.
  • 06/02/12 Choir launches biking tours for visually impaired Source: Taipei Times A Taiwanese choir for the blind launched the nation's first tandem bike team for the visually impaired at Taipei's Dadaocheng Wharf yesterday.
  • 06/01/12 Columnist: |Tom Dowling: Source: Liverpool Echo.co.uk - Liverpool - Merseyside - UK THEY may have problems with their sight but that's not stopping these young climbers from reaching new heights.
  • 06/01/12 Fishing tournament benefits blind PBC residents Source: FOX - WFLX 29 - West Palm Beach FL But many find they can do just about everything sighted people can thanks to the training provided by Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches.

Background on eye care

Optometry is a health care profession concerned with the health of the eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans.

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