Author: Cane Foundation

According to several sources, including the Foundation Fighting Blindness (one of the most authoritative organizations to combat eye diseases) and National Eye Institute February is low vision awareness month.
It is an almost exclusively American anniversary but it seems appropriate to us that these celebrations have a global reach. In this regard, we are proud to be the association that acts as a sounding board for Italy.
In fact, if you search the Internet for “low vision awareness month” you will find various information, while in Italian nothing appears.
So join us and help us promote this anniversary.

Facts about Low Vision Most surveys and studies indicate that the majority of people in the United States with vision loss are adults who are…

Translated from Italian by Elisabetta Vianello.

“You have a sixth sense” it is said attributing someone else a sort of super-power, which goes beyond the canonical five senses. Yet the known senses are well over five. To be exact, there are 9, not to mention the secondary senses, which would bring the list down to 21, depending on how you define a sense. Perhaps the simplest definition is: a sense is a channel through which your body can observe itself or the outside world.

by Mark Dunning