My name is Katie Lee and I'm a graphic design student at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio; caffeine addict and lover of type. This blog documents the progress of my six-month long senior capstone project from concept to conclusion. Read my project statement here.
In the United States alone, the American Foundation for the Blind estimates that 21 million people of all ages have “trouble seeing,” even with glasses and contact lenses.
Among U.S. adults, the National Eye Institute and the American Foundation for the Blind estimate that 4.5 to 5.5 million people aged 40 and older are blind, have low vision, or experience age-related vision loss.
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I’m not quite sure why I can’t find any comprehensive information about visual impairment in America as a whole. Do you see the disparity between these two facts? It seems like a huge portion of the visually impaired is being left out.
I want to find out about the approximately 16 million people that are left out of this statistic. Obviously they’re under the age of 40, and most of them probably just suffer from nearsightedness or farsightedness… but why is this portion of the population so rarely addressed in my resources?
(Source: visionaware.org)
