I could see until the age of four or so, but I have absolutely no memories
of it whatsoever.  And from what I understand, there was one volunteer who
was implanted with this artificial vision device, who'd lost his sight at
age five; and he never saw a thing.  They speculate that this is possibly
due to this man's visual cortex not having fully developed.  So, at least
with this device, this means to me that even if you could see till at least
age five, you probably wouldn't benefit from the device.  So it isn't just
the need to learn to interpret what you see that's the problem here.
Rachel


VICUG-L is the Visually Impaired Computer User Group List.
To join or leave the list, send a message to
[log in to unmask]  In the body of the message, simply type
"subscribe vicug-l" or "unsubscribe vicug-l" without the quotations.
 VICUG-L is archived on the World Wide Web at
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/vicug-l.html