ABSTRACT
A majority of the blind who were unknown in the blindness system were uneducated lower-class people. Since the only purpose of the study was to evaluate a method for obtaining data, little information was collected about the nature of the experiences of the hidden blind. The most reliable and valid data come from a study by Josephson of 684 people who were listed on blindness registers in four states. These data indicate that the unserved detected blind probably include large numbers of poor, uneducated, elderly people who are isolated from the community and have many problems with which they would like to receive assistance. Few agencies in the blindness field practice the kind of restorative approach to rehabilitation that trains a blind person to live independently. The final group of blind people outside institutions for the blind are blinded veterans of the armed forces of the United States.
