Daniel Kish was born with "Bilateral Retinoblastoma" or "retinal cancer" at the age of 7 months when his right eye was removed, and 13 months when his left eye was removed.
Once David woke up from his last surgery he began to climb out of his crib at the intensive care nursery and wandered around. He was completely capable of maneuvering the nursery, his only problem was "getting caught" by one of the nurses.
Daniel goes on to say that "it's the impressions about blindness that are far more threatening to blind people than the blindness itself.", and what he means about that is that we treat people who are blind like they're incapable of doing things on their own, but that nowhere near the truth. Daniel asks the crowd what they think about them or a loved one going blind, in order to drive home the fact that we underestimate the ability of those who are blind and have a morbid fear of becoming so.
He has started an organization that helps fellow blind people learn to navigate through their new life and their new world. Daniel made a short presentation on how he's helping boys and girls of all ages learn to navigate, and after doing so he hopes that the presentation helps us in facing our own problems
and challenges.
I believe after watching this presentation that if we stop thinking that blind people are incapable of doing anything on there own, then they wont strive to do the amazing things they truly are more than capable and want to do.
Once David woke up from his last surgery he began to climb out of his crib at the intensive care nursery and wandered around. He was completely capable of maneuvering the nursery, his only problem was "getting caught" by one of the nurses.
Daniel goes on to say that "it's the impressions about blindness that are far more threatening to blind people than the blindness itself.", and what he means about that is that we treat people who are blind like they're incapable of doing things on their own, but that nowhere near the truth. Daniel asks the crowd what they think about them or a loved one going blind, in order to drive home the fact that we underestimate the ability of those who are blind and have a morbid fear of becoming so.
He has started an organization that helps fellow blind people learn to navigate through their new life and their new world. Daniel made a short presentation on how he's helping boys and girls of all ages learn to navigate, and after doing so he hopes that the presentation helps us in facing our own problems
and challenges.
I believe after watching this presentation that if we stop thinking that blind people are incapable of doing anything on there own, then they wont strive to do the amazing things they truly are more than capable and want to do.