[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/Dorji_Sanga.jpg” caption=”Sanga Dorji is a second-year master’s student in the rehabilitative science program at McMaster. Photo by Susan Bubak.”]For Sanga Dorji, blindness is no barrier to learning. The master's student from Bhutan is in his second year of the rehabilitative science program at McMaster. He is researching the attitude of health professionals, specifically doctors and nurses, toward patients with disabilities.

“I like the place and the people,” he says of McMaster. “The course I am taking is quite interesting, and the professors in my program are very helpful.”

Before coming to McMaster in August 2006, he worked as a physiotherapist in Bhutan for 12 years. For most of that time period, he was the only physiotherapist in Bhutan.

After graduating next year, he plans on returning to Bhutan, where he will “train physiotherapy technicians and other health professionals in community-based rehabilitation.”

Dorji began to lose his sight at the age of eight. He now uses a cane to help him find his way around campus. He also has computer software that can read articles to him and he orders his textbooks in braille.

In his spare time, he enjoys listening to audio books, particularly biographies about people who are blind.