BLIND(NESS)
(See also Braille; Handicapped)
accomplishments: w72 547; g69 5/8 17-18; g63 6/22 12, 14
assisting the blind: g62 7/8 8
baby “sees” with bat’s sonar method: g75 8/22 29
Bible studies: g77 4/8 19
Braille: g69 5/8 17-19; g53 10/8 21-22; w35 210; g32 5/11 487-488
diagram of alphabet: g77 4/8 17
discussion: g77 4/8 16-19
history: g77 4/8 16-17
Brazil: g84 11/22 30
Britain: g59 9/22 26
causes: w74 319-320; g74 1/22 30; g73 6/22 28; ad 242; g66 8/22 26; g63 3/22 11; g63 6/22 13; w60 682; g34 11/7 72-74
deficiency of vitamin A: g83 11/22 9; g77 11/8 30
diabetes: g81 3/22 26
onchocerciasis (river blindness): g82 7/22 30; g80 7/22 27-28
children: g83 11/22 9; g68 3/22 30
cure: g74 4/22 30
discussion: ad 242-243
education for blind: g78 8/8 7; g43 7/21 15-17; g32 5/11 486-492
electronic aids:
device to audibly read the value of currency: g85 11/8 31
for “seeing” with sound: g78 2/8 16-19
infrared device: g59 9/22 26
photocell with direct stimulation of brain: g58 8/8 16
employment: g63 6/22 14-15
experiences: yb66 109; yb65 156, 221-222; w64 675-676; yb64 149; g64 5/8 4; yb63 252-253; yb62 102-103, 107, 284-285
blind Witness pioneers: yb86 58; w85 2/1 27-28; w83 9/15 31; g72 5/8 17-20
child blinded soon after birth: g78 8/8 5-9
minister becomes Witness: w74 411
organizes trip to convention by canoe: w85 1/15 28
temporary loss of vision: g78 9/8 13-15
Witnesses who are deaf and blind: w85 7/15 25; w79 11/15 7-8; g78 12/22 13-17; w72 407
Witnesses who are physically blind: g85 9/8 22-25; yb81 113; km 8/79 1, 3; g78 2/8 16-19; w77 461; yb73 165-166; g72 1/22 23; g72 2/22 20; yb71 208-209; g71 12/22 4; yb68 223-224, 254-255; w58 516; w57 172; w54 140, 491; w49 352; g44 8/2 25; g42 4/29 13; g41 3/19 15; g41 7/23 23; g39 10/18 26
witnessing to physically blind persons: g73 3/8 11; yb71 280, 308-309; yb70 99, 138, 265-266; yb69 140-141; yb67 207; w60 478
Germany (Nazi): g59 9/22 26
guide dogs for: g68 2/22 20-23; g58 1/22 9-12
increase: g68 2/8 30
India: g72 6/22 16; g59 9/22 26
Japan:
schooling and employment: g84 4/8 16-19
Jehovah ‘appoints the blind’ (Ex 4:11): w74 319-320
Keller, Helen: g75 10/22 4
Helen Keller National Center for the Deaf-Blind: g78 12/22 13-16
lightning cures man of: w83 6/15 16; g80 11/22 29-30
machine that reads for the blind: g78 6/22 29; g76 7/22 29
man sails alone to Hawaii: g83 11/8 31
man skis despite: g78 6/22 30
marriage among blind people: g32 5/11 490-491
mental blindness: ad 242-243, 511; w63 224
newspaper for the blind: g85 1/8 30
number affected: g66 6/22 31; g63 6/22 13; g62 5/22 30; g61 2/22 30
for every 100,000 inhabitants in various countries: g81 8/22 31
worldwide: g84 11/22 30
rehabilitation: g74 4/22 30
spiritual: w78 2/15 11; w74 319-320; ad 243; w55 255; w53 382-383; w51 581-582
God’s people (Isa 43:8, 9): bf 208
God’s servants (Isa 42:19): w52 663; w38 20, 155; w36 3, 9; w33 40-41; w30 8, 196
Switzerland:
Swiss money embossed: g77 1/8 30
word blindness: g61 5/22 20-23