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Don'ts to Remember When Assisting Blind Persons

• Don't shout to a blind person as if he were deaf.

• Don't assume a blind person needs assistance. Ask him.

• Don't grab a blind person and start pulling him somewhere.

• Don't avoid using words like "look" and "see".

• Don't move a blind person's possessions without letting him know.

• Don't play "guess who" with a blind person.

• Don't use phrases such as "over there" when giving directions.

• Don't needlessly rush a blind person.

• Don't leave a blind person standing alone in an open space.

• Don't leave doors ajar around a blind person.

• Don't offend a blind person by addressing him through a third party.

• Don't exclaim "wonderful" or "marvelous" simply because a blind person can do some ordinary task, such as telling time on his watch.

• Don't let a blind person's hand dangle in the air if it is obviously his intention to shake hands.

• Don't refill a blind person's coffee cup without telling him.

• Don't leave the room without telling a blind person, so he won't be trying to converse with you after you've gone.

• Don't express pity or patronizing attitudes towards a blind person.

• Don't take advantage of a blind associate by communicating around him through gestures and signs to a third person. It is in poor taste and an encroachment of his personality.

• DO use common sense and be sensitive to the needs of blind persons.
  
  
  
  

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