Friends and family can help by encouraging the blind to participate in all aspects of community life.
Employers can help even more by hiring qualified blind persons in their businesses.
The Louisiana Center for the Blind works closely with families, communities, and employers to dispel harmful misconceptions and to develop job opportunities and social acceptance for blind persons. Through its programs and services, the Louisiana Center for the Blind is breaking down the attitudinal barriers and creating new frontiers of opportunity and involvement for blind persons in all areas of their community life. The Louisiana Center for the Blind WorldWideWeb pages are copyrighted and may not be reproduced in any form without the expressed written consent from The Louisiana Center for the Blind. January 16, 2001.