In order to determine which child and adult may need special assistance because of their visual disabilities, various definitions of blindness have been developed. Legally blind is defined as having 20/200 or less in the better eye with the best correction possible. This means that a legally blind individual would have to stand 20 feet from an object to see it, with vision correction and with the same degree of clarity as a normally sighted person could from 200 feet. About 10% of the legally blind have no vision. The rest have some vision, from light perception alone to relatively good acuity.

While I am legally blind, in a future posting  I will go into the surgical procedure that has substantially improved my vision. Now I can actually see many things that I thought I would never have the ability to see, including reading and typing in my laptop.