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blindness  

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  • Blindness and low vision are one broad type of physical difference that sociologists of deviance and disability have written about extensively since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA; 1990). The term blindness is sometimes used as a general term for conditions more properly termed vision disabilities. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Deviance; Blindness]

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