What If We Lack One or More of Our 5 Senses?

So what if we are lacking one or more of our 5 senses? It is accaully not uncommon to not have all 5 our your senses. There are certain disorders such as blindness and defness that take away our ability to function with that particually sense. There is accaully at least one disorder for each of the five senses. Below are two of the major and most known disorders:

• Blindness is one tragic disease that affects the eyes. There are many different degrees of blindness. You can have a mild blindess which means you can still partially see, but you are very limited. If you are completely blind it means that you cannot see at all. Being blind limits the amount of things you can do, for example drive a car. Luckily, the braille system has helped change the amount of restrictions blind people have. Braille is a coded language made up of tiny bumps. Using this system, the seeing impaired can do such things as read books and be able to distinguish room numbers in a hotel. My grandfather is legally blind (he can barely see but he still can) and he accually has not ever learned how to read braille. He has many different kinds of magnifying glasses to help him read the newspaper and do things on his computer. He also has audio books which read him his favorite books for him so he does not have to struggle with trying to see the small printed words. Another contribution is seeing eye dogs. These are specially trained dogs who help their blind owners do everyday activites such as crossing the street or sometimes even opening cabinets. Below is the web link to the National Federation for the Blind for more information.

http://www.nfb.org/

• Deafness is another serious disease that affects the ability to hear. There are also different levels of deafness. For the more milder levels, hearing aides are available to help people hear. For the more severe cases to being completely deaf, there is sign language. Sign language is a language made up of hand gestures and symbols. I've seen sign language interpreters come into my lecture halls before to help translate for def students. It's a great language that helps people who suffer from deafness to interact with others. Below I have added the web link to the National Association of the Deaf if you would like to visit it for more information.

http://www.nad.org