[nabs-l] ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF SPANISH ARTICLE

Fri Nov 9 03:14:48 UTC 2012

Deb, thanks forsending us the English translation of this. Though 
it was a bit choppy, I was able to read it. I disagree with the 
symbolism of the green cane. It seems to imply that people with 
low vision are suffering, that they cannot accept their blindness 
and move on. I have many friends who are low-vision and perfectly 
content with it. The electronic rehabilitation is good for those 
who would like to take advantage of it. However, I cannot agree 
with separating low-vision and blind people.

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First official release of these distinctive

? Many people fall prey to a blindness that is not one?

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By: Celina Abud

Twenty years ago, a Braille teacher and guidance techniques 
discovered
white cane? Was not all black? for some people who had a? 
certificate of
legal blindness?. It was when one of his students noted that 
although the
view was obstructed in the central area of the eye, could see 
sideways.

Since then, Pearl's life changed in May, and was dedicated to 
fighting for
individuals with low vision, a problem that, although it reaches 
135
million people worldwide, is still unknown to society. He 
pledged,
traveled, presented a thesis in New York, and through his 
efforts, there is
a discipline of rehabilitation for sufferers to read, handled 
and, to even
study in public schools.

Mayo, who chairs the American Association of Low Vision • the 
right to
see?, Was the creator of green cane, which serves as a badge of 
suffering
the problem. After the first official release of hundred of these 
elements,
Mayo DocSalud.com spoke with the fruits of their struggle and 
what remains
to be done.

Reporter: How did the idea of the white cane?

Prof. Perla May: 20 years ago, in one of the schools where I 
taught
orientation and mobility techniques with white cane and Braille, 
one of my
students, Frederick, looked at me and said,? Miss, today you have 
not put
the earring? . Then I asked? Fede, do you you can see? And he 
answered? If
I look at the ceiling, I can see by bit under eye?. He had been 
diagnosed
with ROP but your certificate say? Legal blindness?, Which meant 
that the
child should go to a school for the blind, use a white cane and 
learn to
read and write Braille. Between 1996 and 1997, many people who 
were in the
same situation Federico told me,? Ma'am, I do not want to use 
white cane
because I'm blind, I see something on the street and discriminate 
me
because if I read the white cane in the collectively, they tell 
me that I'm
not down blind?. So I noticed that people with low vision did not 
have a
membership group with which to identify. I then painted a white 
cane with a
green spray, green color of hope, green see-otherwise, see-again 
and from
there we started this race until today, with the sanction of the 
law, with
10 000 using canes and the first official release of this element
nationally.

Q. What did you learn during the time that has been fighting for 
the
dissemination of low vision?

PM: In the 22 years that I am dedicated to researching the topic, 
I can say
that thanks to God, to advances in technology and the constant 
struggle,
there is the discipline of low vision and visual rehabilitation. 
What's
this? Determine how you see and how you see the person. Federico, 
I saw
underneath the eye, today could have been stimulated with a 
special
electronic system to amplify the visual field and thus, a common 
school
studying, reading, watching the face of his mother ... Federico
Unfortunately today is blind, because if the eye does not work, 
you lose.
He was denied the right to see. Therefore, the foundation which I 
chair, is
called • the right to see? and its mission is to cover all 
schools in the
country and Latin America, looking for people with a certificate? 
legal
blindness? this remainder of vision.

Q: What other achievements obtained in these 22 years?

PM: First, the penalty in 2002 of Law 25,682, which determines 
the use of
green cane for people with low vision. Today 10,000 Argentines 
lead. Also
be making the first official release helps spread this, to share 
what it
means, why it was created and what green cane diseases lead 
people to have
low vision without being totally blind. In particular I am very 
excited and
grateful for the support of John Carr, Solidarity Network. With 
the spread
we say that it is time to stop looking the other way.

Q: What is the impact of low vision in the world?

PM: There are 135 million people who suffer from it, but people 
are not
aware of this problem. You know you see and not see, but there 
are no low
vision. The figures are alarming and the number will grow further 
because
macular degeneration, disease of the elderly, causing this 
problem, and
life expectancy is increasing.

Q: In addition to macular degeneration, what other diseases can 
cause low
vision?

PM: Glaucoma, cataracts inoperable and retinitis pigmentosa. In 
children, a
major cause is retinopathy of prematurity, very small at birth.

Q. What is the importance of early diagnosis of these diseases?

PM: It is essential because there are many avoidable blindness. 
Glaucoma
can be prevented. Macular degeneration, taken in time, too. 
Finally,
children born before term and remain in an incubator, they must 
handle well
the retina to prevent its occurrence. Early diagnosis and 
treatment can
make those people with low vision never become blind.

Q: What do you look with today's event?

PM: That this problem is more widespread and more not to confuse 
those who
suffer with the blind, because there are many people who fall 
prey to a
blindness that is not. I always say that the right to see is a 
right for
all. But we see, many times we see nothing; many who see little, 
for lack
of resources, end up not see, and those who see nothing, if 
society were a
little less selfish, you might see a little more of the blue they 
see.

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