The purpose is to teach people confidence. It's problem solving. People develop confidence that they can do it. To students like Berans, the center has made a big difference. Tigges said that new students should enter the program when they are ready.
People can come to the center too soon.
They first have to accept that they are blind. Blindness carries a pretty heavy stigma and people don't want to admit that they are blind. Some people think that what they have is as good as it gets but this simply isn't true. Although the program is rigorous, staff encourages new students to wait until they are ready so they are capable of dealing with the learning new techniques of living. People are stressed.