I learned this years ago from a little girl when I was volunteering at the Foundation of the Junior Blind.
One of the first things I was taught in my orientation was that the volunteers have the problems with seeing blind children. The children have adapted.
She was right. The first time I came and saw hundreds of children feeling their way down the hall with their canes or feeling the walls with their little hands to guide them to their class rooms, I felt nauseous, and had to leave the building for air.
I was in deep shock. I couldn’t believe so many children as young as two or three were sentenced to a sightless world. However, the sounds of laughter and cheer in the halls during the passing periods were like any other school. Kids greeted one another recognizing their friend’s voices, and not by sight.
