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If you want to help a visually impaired, you should get acknowledged about the following and behave according to them.

* You should not you hold him/her, but rather he/she should hold your arm while walking.

* He/she should walk half step from behind of you in order to enable him/her to realize the pavement or the stairs.

* He/she may want to use the hand-hold while walking down a stairs. (You don’t need to warn him/her while stepping on or off the pavement. If you slow down, it would be enough since he/she is following you half step from behind.)

* You should call his/her name while you are talking to him/her. Otherwise he/she may not recognize whom you are talking to.

* Do not hesitate to use words like seeing or blind and inform him/her while you are leaving him/her.

* If he/she asks you a route or a direction, verbally explain it in a direct and understandable way. Using gestures has no meaning.

* It may be both annoying and dangerous to direct a visually disabled person from away by whispering. If you are able to, go next to him/her in order to help him/her.

* You can ask him/her whether he/she wants to learn which bus arrived in the stops. If your bus departs earlier, don’t forget to inform him about your departure.

* Don’t leave the doors open. If you go to a room with him/her, where he/she did not go before, don’t leave him/her alone and accompany him/her until you reach a chair or sofa.

* If there is meat in the main dish ask him/her whether he/she wants help. Describe the place of the dishes in details.

* When he/she comes to visit you, boarding included show him/her places of the toilet, wardrobe, window, electrical devices. Besides, he/she may want to know whether the lights are on or off.

* If you want, he/she may talk about his/her blindness with you. But this is an old story. Yet, as long as you do have, he/she has many subjects of interest.

Who is a visually disabled?

* Visually impaired is not someone who needs protection, who wants pity and who is helpless.

* He/she is also not different from others, who has supernatural abilities or a miraculous person who can hear what others don’t.

* He/she also has positive and negative attributes that others have. (There are also successful-unsuccessful individuals or selfish-socially oriented people among visually disabled.)

* Visually impaired is a normal human being like others. He reads the same books with a different script.

* He/she receives same information and education with different methods.

* He/she shares the same schools, business places, roads and recreation places with others.

* Being visually impaired does not mean owning a different personality.