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Series ISBN: 978-1-4222-3027-5 ISBN: 978-1-4222-3030-5 ebook ISBN: 978-1-4222-8815-3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Souder, Patricia. [Different way of seeing] Blindness and vision impairment / Patricia Souder. pages cm. — (Living with a special need) Originally published in 2004 as: A different way of seeing : youth with visual impair- ments and blindness. Includes index. ISBN 978-1-4222-3030-5 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4222-3027-5 (series) — ISBN 978-1-4222-8815-3 (ebook) 1. Children with visual disabilities—Juvenile literature. 2. Blind children—Juvenile literature. 3. Blindness—Juvenile literature. 4. Eye—Wounds and injuries—Juvenile literature. I. Title.

HV1596.3.S68 2015 362.4'10835—dc23

2014010624

Picture credits: Benjamin Stewart: pp. 16, 33, 54, 59, 60, 74, 85, 86, 98, 113, 114; Chittima Kasa | Dreamstime.com: p. 63; Corbis: pp. 27, 41; Dvkorn | Dreamstime.com: p. 62; Image Source: pp. 28, 31, 116; M. Richard Hearing: pp. 72, 89; PhotoDisc: pp. 17, 18, 29, 99; Research Foundation/Camp Abilities: pp. 42, 44, 73, 75, 76, 77, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112; Seeing Eye: pp. 101, 102, 103, 104, 115, 117. Special thanks to Camp Abilities, the Batavia School for the Blind, and the Seeing Eye Foundation for their help in the creation of this book.