It’s a hairstyle favoured by celebs from Rihanna to Justin Bieber and often copied by their young fans. But a leading optometrist has warned that having a side fringe that falls into the face can cause long-term eye damage. Andrew Hogan told the Australian Daily Telegraph: ‘If a young emo chap has a fringe covering [...]
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Archive | Visual Impairment
Can having a side fringe give you a lazy eye? As one eye doctor warns hairstyle can cause long-term damage to sight, another slams his theory as ‘false’ | Mail Online
Posted on 16 May 2012.
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Blind gran’s lost novel is recovered by forensic experts after her pen ran dry | Mail Online
Posted on 18 April 2012.
Blind gran’s lost novel is recovered by forensic experts after her pen ran dry Police scientists spent five months rescuing the missing pages Unravelled mystery by studying indentations made by Trish Vickers’ pen By IAN GARLAND PUBLISHED: 17:36, 11 April 2012 | UPDATED: 07:40, 13 April 2012 Comments (24) Share Trish Vickers developed an elaborate [...]
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‘Now she has her mummy back’: Soldier blown up in Iraq reveals how losing a leg has meant she can be a mother again | Mail Online
Posted on 16 April 2012.
You might think having her leg shattered in an Iraqi mortar attack was bad enough. But for Hannah Campbell, the only mother in the British Army to lose a limb in a war zone, it was just the start. The blast buried Hannah and left her partially blinded in one eye and needing plastic surgery [...]
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Playing Tetris ‘could cure children of lazy eye’ and spell the end for embarrassing eye patches | Mail Online
Posted on 05 April 2012.
For generations, children have been warned that sitting in front of a screen for too long will give them square eyes. But an hour a day spent playing computer games can actually help to cure a lazy eye, a groundbreaking study has shown. The traditional treatment for amblyopia – or lazy eye – is an [...]
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Video: Blind student Anna Albury on meeting Prince Harry – Telegraph
Posted on 06 March 2012.
During the youth rally in Nassau, Prince Harry befriended Anna Albury, a blind 12-year-old who told the crowds that “although I am blind, I do not accept this as a disadvantage”, as she encouraged others to “pursue your dreams”. Prince Harry, who sat next to Anna on a platform during a youth rally, chatted to [...]
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Prince Harry outshone by girl’s speech – Telegraph
Posted on 06 March 2012.
Anna Albury, 12, told 11,000 students in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, that “although I am blind, I do not accept this as a disadvantage”, as she encouraged others to “pursue your dreams”. Prince Harry, who sat next to Anna on a platform during a youth rally, chatted to her for several minutes during [...]
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Prince Harry nails the casual look as he makes relaxed appearance at Bahamas youth rally | Mail Online
Posted on 06 March 2012.
Prince Harry appears to be enjoying his Caribbean tour – and is even making friends along the way. Looking happy and relaxed, the young Royal chatted with primary school student of the year Anna Albury, a 12-year-old blind girl. As she held her white stick, the prince joked with the youngster before she gave a [...]
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Lola Walters: Blind teenage gymnast who is taking America by storm | Mail Online
Posted on 24 February 2012.
With her incredible jumps and flips on the gymnastics beam and brave maneuvers on the parallel bars, 13-year-old Lola Walters has been taking America by storm. But every time she reaches for the beam she is taking a leap of faith – because she can hardly see it. Lola, from California, is legally blind, suffering [...]
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Playing video games ‘improves eyesight’ – Telegraph
Posted on 20 February 2012.
Rare conditions like childhood cataracts cause near blindness in infancy, and even if corrected with surgery patients suffer from impaired sight throughout their adult life. But playing video games could help improve their sight by teaching the brain to spot small details, follow movements and spot subtle light changes. Researchers from McMaster University tested six [...]
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Edward Taylor, 65, kicked out of home by daughter, 25, after making blind lover, 22, pregnant | Mail Online
Posted on 01 February 2012.
A disabled pensioner has been kicked out of his family home by his 25-year-old daughter after getting his blind lover, 22, pregnant. Retired lorry driver Edward Taylor, 65, was told to leave the bungalow he shared with his daughter, Kelly, after beginning his love affair with young girlfriend Emma Gough. The unlikely sweethearts are now [...]
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Mother raises £250,000 to save her son, 11, from blindness
Posted on 30 January 2012.
A mother has raised £250,000 to fund pioneering research in a desperate attempt to save her son’s eyesight. As a result of Emma Salisbury’s tireless efforts over the past six years, the first patients are taking part in a clinical trial of a treatment that scientists say could halt her son Tommy’s progressive sight loss. [...]
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UK’s youngest eye transplant patient Eva Joyce sees her mother for the first time | Mail Online
Posted on 31 December 2011.
It was the Christmas gift her parents feared she would never receive. Eva Joyce, who was born blind, is able to see her mum and dad for the first time after becoming the youngest patient in the UK to have a corneal transplant. Four-month-old Eva suffered from Peter’s anomaly, a rare congenital condition which makes [...]
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How iPads could help ‘blind’ children to see
Posted on 07 October 2011.
Every visually impaired child tested was ‘enthralled’ by the device, say scientists
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Meet the amazing piano prodigy, 8, who can breeze through Tchaikovsky and Mozart concertos … despite being blind
Posted on 07 September 2011.
Meet the amazing eight-year-old piano prodigy who is totally blind, yet has no trouble breezing through Tchaikovsky and Mozart concertos while most children her age are getting to grips with their times tables.
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Blind ‘Superman’ saves teenage girl by following her screams after she was thrown from a horse
Posted on 13 July 2011.
Morgan Trujillo was heading out on her black horse to round up some cows last week when disaster struck.
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Drunk ladette who nearly blinded grandmother-of-three with stiletto at pub New Year’s Eve party is spared jail
Posted on 09 July 2011.
A mother who almost blinded a grandmother with her stiletto heel in a drunken rage has been spared jail – so she can continue to care for her son.
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Reading for my blind grandfather
Posted on 25 June 2011.
Sarah Franklin grew up reading aloud to her grandfather, who was blind – a privilege that she will always treasure
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Sugababe Jade Ewen, carer to her blind Mum and Dad, says
Posted on 06 June 2011.
‘It’s down to them I became a popstar’
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Chemical attack part-blinds girl, 13, in Islington
Posted on 28 May 2011.
A grandfather has spoken of his fury after his teenage granddaughter had ammonia thrown in her face in an apparently unprovoked attack.
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How boy who lost his sight aged five became judo champion ‘The Blind Fury’
Posted on 22 May 2011.
* Rare reaction to penicillin led to lesions in his mouth, loss of finger nails and his corneas burnt away, leaving him blind
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The mother who can’t recognise her own children
Posted on 05 May 2011.
Agony of woman who suffers from ‘face blindness’
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Caerphilly mother’s terminally ill care funding despair
Posted on 18 April 2011.
The mother of a terminally-ill girl says she has considered putting her into care because of funding delays.
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Will a million schoolchildren play Paralympic sport?
Posted on 15 April 2011.
With barely 500 days to the Paralympics, an effort to change perceptions of disability will feature able-bodied children playing blind football and seated volleyball
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Boy, two, is first person in the world to be born with an extra strand of DNA
Posted on 12 April 2011.
A two-year-old boy has become the only person in the world to be diagnosed with an extra strand in his DNA.
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The little girl who can finally smile again!
Posted on 09 April 2011.
Life-changing surgery for Zosia, two, who was denied NHS treatment for birthmark that threatened to leave her blind
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Channel 4 ‘to stand by joke about Jordan’s blind son’
Posted on 04 April 2011.
Channel 4 will refuse to apologise over its decision to broadcast an offensive Frankie Boyle joke about the disabled son of glamour model Katie Price, it has been claimed.
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How blind grandfather could ‘see’ his grandson for the first time with revolutionary bionic glasses
Posted on 04 April 2011.
It is the moment grandfather Elias Konstantopoulos has been dreaming of after losing his sight – ‘seeing’ his grandson for the first time.
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Grandparents to stand trial over death of disabled girl
Posted on 05 March 2011.
The County Antrim grandparents of a severely disabled 14-year-old girl who died in 2001 are to stand trial accused of unlawfully killing her.
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Toddler facing blindness from a birthmark is refused laser treatment to save her eyesight by cost-cutting NHS Trust
Posted on 24 February 2011.
A toddler faces a lifetime of blindness and disfigurement after her NHS Trust refused to fund life-changing laser surgery which would save her sight.
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Be more sensitive with my son
Posted on 18 February 2011.
Angry mother says people ‘tut’ at her blind toddler as they assume his white cane is a toy
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‘He has drive like I have never seen’
Posted on 14 February 2011.
Boy, 3, born without part of his brain baffles doctors after learning to walk
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Disabled 11-year-old’s death ‘may have been caused by baby-shaking a decade before’
Posted on 11 February 2011.
An 11-year-old left permanently disabled after she was shaken by her mother’s former boyfriend when she was a baby, has been found dead in bed by her mother.
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I owe it all to my blind parents
Posted on 24 December 2010.
reveals Sugababe Jade Ewen as she plans to treat them to the best Christmas ever
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Girl, 4, can see for the first time thanks to miracle stem cell operation
Posted on 15 December 2010.
A little girl who has been blind since birth has seen her mother and father for the first time – at the age of four.
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Young carers ‘deserve more help’
Posted on 16 November 2010.
Victoria, 12, has been a carer for the past six years since her mother Gail was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
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My glimpse of hell and the pitiful children who have been betrayed
Posted on 15 November 2010.
In 1990 the horror of Romania’s orphanages was revealed to the world. So why, after millions of EU funds have been poured into the country to eradicate such institutions, do thousands of vulnerable youngsters remain incarcerated? Angela Levin reports
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Did Leonardo da Vinci’s dyslexia help him to be a master painter?
Posted on 12 November 2010.
The secret of Leonardo Da Vinci’s talent and Pablo Picasso’s success may have been their dyslexia.
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Mystery of the girl, 11, who went blind in just 10 weeks
Posted on 12 November 2010.
An 11-year-old girl has baffled doctors after she lost her sight in just 10 weeks.
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Mother calls for Chinese lantern ban after son, three, is burned by molten wax on bonfire night
Posted on 10 November 2010.
A family fireworks party ended in horror when boiling wax fell from a Chinese lantern and landed on a three-year-old boy’s face, almost blinding him.
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Parents of disabled girl pay £15,000 for stem cell treatment at German clinic
Posted on 24 October 2010.
Parents of disabled girl pay £15,000 for stem cell treatment at German clinic
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Hereditary blindness: the parents’ dilemma
Posted on 07 October 2010.
Hereditary blindness: the parents’ dilemma
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400 Nigerian children used in gold mine poisoned
Posted on 06 October 2010.
400 Nigerian children used in gold mine poisoned
Posted in Internet Kids, Parents, Visual Impairment, World NewsComments Off
Scunthorpe blind baby’s parents seek damages from NHS
Posted on 30 September 2010.
Scunthorpe blind baby’s parents seek damages from NHS
Posted in Disability, Internet Kids, Parents, Visual ImpairmentComments Off
NHS apologises to family of baby left blind in one eye and brain-
Posted on 29 September 2010.
NHS apologises to family of baby left blind in one eye and brain-
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Blind activist Chen Guangcheng ‘freed in China
Posted on 10 September 2010.
Blind activist Chen Guangcheng ‘freed in China
Posted in Disability, Internet Kids, Parents, Pro-life and abortion, Visual ImpairmentComments Off
Children’s sight at risk as parents and schools shun eye tests
Posted on 22 August 2010.
Children’s sight at risk as parents and schools shun eye tests
Posted in At School, Childcare, Family Health, Health, Internet Kids, Parents, Visual ImpairmentComments Off
700 children born with genetic disabilities due to cousin marriages every year
Posted on 22 August 2010.
700 children born with genetic disabilities due to cousin marriages every year
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Toddler, 2, battles devastating cancer that gave him more than a dozen tumours in his eyeballs
Posted on 04 August 2010.
Toddler, 2, battles devastating cancer that gave him more than a dozen tumours in his eyeballs
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Oops, I fell out of my Spitfire! As a child, Vicky Honour adored her grandfather’s tales …
Posted on 03 August 2010.
Oops, I fell out of my Spitfire!
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Adder bite leaves father blinded,
Posted on 23 July 2010.
Adder bite leaves father blinded,
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