Day 5
Being visually impaired has physical disadvantages, which most people are aware of. You cannot see objects while walking, you cannot read, and you need help finding food at the grocery store. Something that I found particularly interesting the past few days while speaking with our patient is that visually impaired patients are heavily limited by their guides regarding general information. For example, our patient uses a technology called PenFriend which helps identify clothes and object around the house using voice recorded assistance with labels. Instead of buying expansion packs that are readily available on the Internet, our patient was buying new PenFriends which are much more expensive and made their life more tedious. The visual impairment made it extremely difficult to know the other options because navigating websites is more tedious when using voice commands. In this case, our patient was limited by the knowledge and resourcefulness of their helper or assistive technology.
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