Student's Will to Survive with Visual Impairments Brightens School Halls Go to Fall 1998 Table of Contents. Toward the end of last school year, one of the Outreach staff shared this article with me written by Timothy Hatch. It was originally published in the school newspaper of Flour Bluff High School near Corpus Christi where Timothy, a student who has low vision, was a freshman. The bell rings. You step outside the door and hear a rush of people come by.
Nothing is recognizable.
You can only see light and dark or your vision is so bad you don't recognize your friends across the hall at their lockers. This is what life is like for sophomores Shannon McGinnis and Marion Webb. I can only see five feet in front of me. That means that Shannon can see at 20 feet what a sighted person can at 1600 ft. Getting around school can be very frightening when you first lose your vision, but after Orientation and Mobility training, it's not any harder than being sighted.