In 1886, her mother, inspired by an account in Charles Dickens ' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf and blind woman, Laura Bridgman, dispatched young Helen, accompanied by her father, to seek out Dr. J. Julian Chisolm, an eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist in Baltimore, for advice.

The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 2005 ), The Concise New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English ( 2007 ), and The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English ( 2008 ) give a secondary meaning as " any blind, unthinking, unquestioning follower of a philosophy.

Advocacy groups for pedestrians and the blind in the US have been critical of Segway PT use: America Walks and the American Council of the Blind oppose allowing the PT to be driven on sidewalks, even for those with disabilities, and have actively lobbied against any such legislation.

* June 1 – Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind ( b. 1880 )

* June 27 – Helen Keller, American spokeswoman for the deaf and blind ( d. 1968 )

Legally blind Marla Runyan ran in the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won a gold medal in the 1500 metres at the 1999 Pan American Games.

Arthur " Art " Tatum, Jr. (, October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956 ) was an American jazz pianist and virtuoso who played with phenomenal facility despite being nearly blind since birth.

A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the relationship between a black man, Gordon ( played by Sidney Poitier ), and a blind white female teenager, Selina ( Elizabeth Hartman ), and the problems that plague their relationship when they fall in love in a racially divided America.

Proponents included the British botanist George Henslow who studied the effects of environmental stress on the growth of plants in the belief that such environmentally induced variation might explain much of plant evolution, and the American entomologist Alpheus Packard who studied blind animals living in caves and wrote a book in 1901 about Lamarck and his work.

Mary Elizabeth Hartman ( December 2, 1943 – June 10, 1987 ) was an American actress, best known for her performance in the 1965 film A Patch of Blue, playing a blind girl named Selina D ' Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year-Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama.

Moondog, born Louis Thomas Hardin ( May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999 ), was a blind American composer, musician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments.

Living conditions deteriorated, and some American guards turned " a blind eye " to escapes.

* Tony DeBlois, blind American musician

* Leslie Lemke, blind American musician

* Rex Lewis-Clack, blind American pianist.

* Blind Tom Wiggins, blind African American pianist.

As Wells described the horrors of American lynchings, British liberals were incredulous that White women such as Willard – who had been heralded in the English press as the " Uncrowned Queen of American Democracy "– would turn a blind eye to such violence.

On July 7, 2009, Paul O ' Neill was inducted into the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame ( 18 W. 33rd St. inside Foley's NY Pub & Restaurant ) in New York City along with longtime Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter O ' Malley, broadcaster Vin Scully, former player Steve Garvey, umpire Jim Joyce, and blind sports reporter Ed Lucas.

It centers on the journey of blind American singer Paul Pena to the isolated Asian nation of Tuva due to his interest in Tuvan throat singing.

The principal targets of the American program were the mentally retarded and the mentally ill, but also targeted under many state laws were the deaf, the blind, people with epilepsy, and the physically deformed.

He played a major role in the emerging field of clinical psychology, in 1911 helped to write the first U. S. law requiring that blind, deaf and mentally retarded children be provided special education within public school systems, and in 1914 became the first American psychologist to testify in court that subnormal intelligence should limit the criminal responsibility of defendants.

( 1881 ), " List of the North American species of myriapods belonging to the family Lysiopetalidae, with a description of a blind form from Luray Cave, Virginia ", Proceedings of the U. S. National Museum, 3: 524-529.

To criticism from the American National Federation of the Blind, he replied that free audio availability of copyright works to the blind is provided for automatically by American copyright laws.

While blind and visually impaired people had contributed to the body of common literature for centuries, one notable example being the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton, the creation of autobiographical materials, or materials specific to blindness, is relatively new.

* January 10 – Mary Amelia Ingalls, blind older sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder ( d. October 20, 1928 )

The ten remaining confused passengers are Brian Engle, a troubled, off-duty airline pilot traveling to Boston to attend his ex-wife's funeral ; Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with minor psychic powers ; fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson, who takes to watching over Dinah ; Nick Hopewell, a junior attache & " mechanic " for the British Embassy ; Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer on a trip to see his grandchild ; Rudy Warwick, a businessman ; Albert Kaussner, a talented teen violinist heading to a prestigious school of the arts ; Bethany Simms, a teenager being sent by her family to rehab ; Bob Jenkins, a mystery author who acts as the voice of logic ; and Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.

Zampanò is the blind author of The Navidson Record.

** Jacques Lusseyran, blind author

President Woodrow Wilson, Helen Keller ( the blind and deaf author and fellow-IWW member ), the Swedish ambassador and the Swedish public all became involved in a bid for clemency.

On September 3, 2011 Fleming married corporate lawyer Tim Jessell, whom she met on a blind date set up by author Ann Patchett.

In a follow-up to The Cloud, called The Book of Privy Counseling, the author characterizes the practice of contemplative unknowing as worshiping God with one's " substance ," coming to rest in a " naked blind feeling of being ," and ultimately finding thereby that God is one's being.

Jacques Lusseyran ( 1924-1971 ) was a blind French author and political activist.

* Carey McWilliams ( marksman ) ( born 1973 ), blind marksman, author, and skydiver

Though only six quarterly issues were produced, the tabloid-size venue — edited by author Neil Fineman — allowed Carson to make his first significant impact on the world of graphic design and typography — with ideas that were called innovative even by those that were not fond of his work, in which legibility often relied on readers ' strict attention ( for one feature on a blind surfer, Carson opened with a two-page spread covered in black ).

* Sir Clutha MacKenzie-World War I soldier, worker for the blind and author

The author of great epics, being already blind, alters his view into something vital and worthy of interest – no more battle ’ s clamor, but now detail, something which is considered to be the most personal and fragile.

While at Pomona, Rose was a reader for Ved Mehta, a blind student who would go on to become a well-known author.

Gérard Prunier, author of The Rwanda Crisis and Africa's World War, expresses skepticism of the claims that génocidaires were a significant factor in the massacre and characterizes the Kibeho as being a miniature version of the characteristics of the invasion of Zaire that would occur 18 months later: " nontreatment of the consequences of genocide, well-meaning but politically blind humanitarianism, RPF resolve to ' solve the problem ' by force, stunned impotence of the international community in the face of violence, and, finally, a hypocritical denial that anything much had happened.

World-class climber and author Erik Weihenmayer, the first blind man in history to reach the summit of the world's highest peak Mount Everest makes a special guest appearance.

* Tom Sullivan ( singer ) ( born 1947 ), blind singer / composer / author / actor

The book starts with a slightly awkward meeting between a crotchety blind author and a sighted interviewee he seeks to employ as his assistant.

Named after Helen Adams Keller ( 1880 – 1968 ), an American author and educator of the blind.