defective sight
defective vision

A home was established for blind women and girls with defective sight.

Very occasionally a child may develop a squint because an eye is abnormal and has defective sight.

Defective sight put paid to a flying career, but after being commissioned in 1941 he devoted his career to administration.

A score of men with defective sight may be together, and in no two will the sight be the same.

While attending Duke University, at the age of 18 Trimble was disqualified from officer training school because of defective sight in one eye.

Pupils with defective sight are especially in need of the opportunity to look at objects at close range, holding them near to the eye and having time to gaze.

They will not be struggling with defective sight in a confused environment in which they are using materials that are hard to decipher and presented without sufficient clarity.

Fear that the use of defective vision would make it deteriorate further has been replaced by positive encouragement and training to use even severely defective sight as effectively as possible in learning and in day-to-day living.

Any additional support or special tuition that a pupil needs as a result of defective sight must be given tactfully by the teacher or teacher's aid, with an emphasis on what the pupil can do rather than on difficulties.

Because the recognition of defective sight is so significant in terms of the child's development and learning, it is not surprising that the importance of attention to presenting symptoms has been emphasised by experienced educators of visually handicapped children.

The way in which each child adapts to defective vision will be individual, and there are considerations both in the causes of defective sight and the effects of these on the way that children can use their vision.

The particular needs of children with defective sight call for a report on the child's eye condition or cause of defective vision from an ophthalmologist, and a report is also requested from the educational advisory service for the visually handicapped.

Hitler opened the Great Exhibition of German Art in Munich with a speech attacking the London exhibition of banned German art, calling modern artists "cultural Neanderthalers" and "lamentable unfortunates who plainly suffer from defective sight."

The procedures for assessment and the evaluation of educational needs have become more formalised since the 1981 Education Act so that now a report from a qualified teacher of visually handicapped children is a requirement of the assessment procedure for a child whose learning or development is affected by defective sight.

Should children with defective vision be resting their eyes?

A couple whose daughter was killed by a driver with very defective vision have lent their support to the campaign and recently featured on television.

In 1929, a class for children with defective vision (now visually impaired) was established.

With your slow reaction time you sure can't afford the added handicap of defective vision.

These measures will show the distance at which the child with defective vision can be expected to discriminate visually presented material.

Since there are pupils in the class with defective vision, however, there will need to be an additional emphasis on some aspects of teaching.

In short, nearly one in three possessed physical defects, a figure which took no account of dental problems or defective vision.

If you need spectacles to meet the official eye sight standard, wear them, it is an offence to drive with uncorrected defective vision.

Four years ago he took an optical course and prepared himself to treat those who have defective vision, and fit them with proper glasses.

His application for a commission in the Infantry was refused point-blank because of his defective vision.

Nearsightedness, the ability to see near things more clearly than distant ones, is basically defective vision of distant objects.

Defective vision occurs due to marked corneal astigmatism.

The ultimate aim must be to help pupils with defective vision to use as much standard material as possible in common with their classmates.

Small print, dense layout, footnotes and detailed diagrams can be very demanding for some pupils with defective vision.

Not blinded by the defective vision of the status quo, Sri Lankans may have found the better way to go.

Without these signposts, the terminology used to describe children without sight or with defective vision may seem unduly complex or even inexact.

They are said to prevent defective vision such as shortsightedness and are recommended in cases of eye fatigue (so-called "eye qigong").

"A little nose writing, followed by a few minutes of palming. . . will result in a perceptible temporary improvement of defective vision," he writes.

A commonly used laser surgical procedure for the correction of defective vision is photorefractive keratotomy ("PRK").

The World Through Blunted Sight: An inquiry into the influence of defective vision on art and character (1970)

Equating time to position had become second nature with him, but he had to think for a moment because his defective vision prevented him from seeing the Earth-crescent.

In "The Art of Seeing," Huxley says that "a little nose writing will result in a perceptible temporary improvement of defective vision."

On 3 July 1916 von Brumowski became a pilot with Flik 1, despite the defective vision in his right eye that he corrected with a monocle.

A seminar on physical, physiological and psychological aspects of visual and auditory perception with special emphasis on the comparison between normal and defective vision and hearing.

Sometimes the advisory services for visually handicapped pupils are involved in the work of special schools for pupils with learning or physical disabilities as well as defective vision.