Visually Impaired Vets Realize Importance of Manual Skills

For a visually impaired person learning to live with sight loss, discovering how our sense of touch, hearing and yes even our sense of smell has more meaning. That is not to say we suddenly develop hyper sense of touch, bionic hearing or, a heightened sense of smell. Oh no, we simply learn to trust and pay closer attention to things we touch, hear and smell.

Who knew, tactile clues, different sounds and aromas provide we humans with far more useful information than we ever took into consideration before sight loss changed our lives. Let’s face it, how often have you found yourself quickly pulling your hand away from something too hot to handle, looking in the direction of a loud noise let’s say a siren, or how about fallen victim to the sweet or savory smells of your favorite foods, fresh baked bread, cakes, cookies or garlic bread come to mind.

I believe you will find it easy to understand, how using the power of these manual skills as a way of dealing with the challenges of vision loss. After all, for someone learning how to deal with their sight loss, learning to use and trust new ways of doing things and overcoming the many day to day challenges life throws our way a good thing indeed.