”If you’re a carpenter and you
cut your finger, you don’t stop
going to work - you just find
way of grabbing the hammer.”

(Bennet, as cited in RNZFB, 2007)


The purpose of this essay is to discuss the people with blindness or visual impaired as a sub culture within New Zealand. In this essay, we are dealing with the social attitudes in caring for blind or visual impaired people. The Annison, Jenkinson, Sparrow, Bethune, (1996), define a blindness ”as a limitation in one or more basic functions of the eye or visual system. The most commonly considered visual impairments are impairment of visual acuity(sharpness or clarity of vision), visual fields and colour vision” (p.180) Blindness may be caused by injury, infection disease, tumours or as a result of the aging process. This essay will discuss the sub culture of blind or......

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Title: Blindness No Barrier To Success
Approximate Word Count: 1974
Approximate Pages: 8 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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