visual impairment

Once again, I tasted the feeling of being blind again...... this is the second time in OT course that I was blind..... The 1st time was last year, when we were introduced to the terms - disabled, impairment and handicapped.....

HB was talking about this visually impairment man who is the president of the Disabled People's Association of Singapore. I became curious of this person and decided to check out on him.

This is what I have found:
He is Mr Ron Chandran-Dudley. He was blind at the age of 19 at a rugby accident, tarnishing his dream of becoming a brain surgeon. Luckily, with his father's encouragement, he came to term with his blindness, and decided to volunteer himself at the Singapore Association for the Blind(currently known as the Singapore Association for the visually handicapped) and later took up a degree in social anthropology at the prestigious London School of Economics (LSE) and managed to excel in it.

After his course, he returned back to Singapore with his wife and he bacame the general secretary for the Singapore Association for the Blind. After 5 years, Ron left the Singapore Association for the Blind to study vocational rehabilitation counseling and psychotherapy as a Fulbright Scholar at the State University of New York at Albany. He returned back to Singapore in 1971 and during the next 10 years, he branched out into other social services, including counselling the drug abusers and training after-care officers for the
Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association.

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