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Living With Vision Loss - Coping
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Coping With Vision Loss: Maximizing What You Can See and Do
by Bill G. Chapman, George H. Pollock (Illustrator), Lin Moore
This book begins with a promise: people with severe vision loss can be trained and equipped to function as sighted. The author, himself legally blind for 30 years, fulfills that promise with precise information and guidance on improving life through visual rehabilitation. The book explains fundamental facts about eyes and vision, including the causes and varieties of blindness, and then moves on to the new skills the partially sighted person must learn. Specific approaches and devices are covered in depth, including "eccentric viewing" and driving with telescopic glasses, and the visual and electronic aids that can help overcome the effects of vision loss. In spite of his own limited vision (20/240), Dr. Chapman uses a computer without a voice synthesizer, watches TV, and even drives, and he shows readers how to do the same.
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Perceiving the Elephant : Living Creatively With Loss of Vision
by Frances Lief Neer (Editor)
[LARGE PRINT]
If you are reaching for your glasses to read this, you are a potential buyer of Perceiving the Elephant. According to Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., "80 million people suffer from potentially blinding eye diseases." Each person with changing sight is surrounded by friends and family who are also affected by this change. This book is an insider's and an outsider's view of sight loss. It addresses both professionals and the general public, and includes essays by blind as well as sighted people on coping with blindness. These essays speak to a variety of experiences in the sighted and blind worlds, with sections on medical perceptions, social service, education, and the heart and mind.
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Out of the Corner of My Eye : Living With Vision Loss in Later Life
by Nicolette Pernot Ringgold
[LARGE PRINT]
A personal account of sudden vision loss and subsequent adjustment that is full of practical advice and cheerful encouragement, told by an 87-year-old retired college teacher who has maintained her independence and zest for life. Subjects covered include initial reactions as well as ongoing accommodations to loss of vision and ways to continue one's activities both indoors and out. An extensive resource section listing sources of information and services, completes this essential guide.
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Dancing in the Dark: A Guide to Living With Blindness and Visual Impairment
by Frances Lief Neer
A direct, good humored, non-threatening reference guide for living in a frightening situation. It is for people affected personally as well as professionally. Dancing in the Dark includes a resource directory and primer to understand the language of visual impairment.
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Driving With Confidence: A Practical Guide to Driving With Low Vision
by Eli Peli, Doron Peli
Millions of people, in the US and other parts of the world, face the grim prospect of losing their driving privileges, their mobility, and to a great extent their freedom, due to a deterioration in their eyesight or a disabling eye disease.
Driving with Confidence is an empowering tool. Its message is simple: In many cases, people with low vision can and do receive, retain and safely exercise their driving privileges.
The book presents a clear, no-nonsense discussion on the realities of low vision conditions, together with a practical program designed to help low vision individuals maximize their chances of retaining and/or extending their driving privileges. It also provides a detailed description of driving vision regulations in every state in the US.
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Living Well With Macular Degeneration: Practical Tips and Essential Information
by Dr. Bruce Rosenthal, Kate Kelly, Barbara Silverstone (Introduction), Bob Thompson (Introduction)
Written by one of the nation's leading experts on the subject, this new guide offers the most up-to-date information, advice and support to the growing number of people with age-related macular degeneration. Based on the latest on-going research, it includes:
- A clear explanation of the symptoms and causes of AMD
- Advice on seeking medical help and "low vision" centers
- Latest research on medical treatments
- Information on how to slow the progress of AMD
- Amazing new devices that aid reading, driving, and other pastimes
- Tips on how to make everyday activities easier
- A list of organizations and resources that can provide services, discounts, and low-vision products
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Coping With Macular Degeneration: A Guide for Patients and Families to Understanding and Living With Degenerative Vision Disorder
by Ira Marc Price OD, Linda Comac
[LARGE PRINT]
In easy-to-understand language, the authors explain how macular degeneration occurs, what types exist, some of the problems related to it, and specific techniques for coping.
About the Author
Ira Marc Price, O.D., is a clinical director of the Helen Keller Services for the Blind in Brooklyn and Hempstead, New York.
Linda Comac is the coauthor of Sharks Don't Get Cancer and Sharks Still Don't Get Cancer.
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Do You Remember the Color Blue: And Other Questions Kids Ask About Blindness
by Sally Hobart Alexander, J. Davis (Editor), J. Carey (Editor)
Blindness is a fascinating mystery to children. Sally Hobart Alexander lost her sight at the age of twenty-six, and although the experience was devastating, eventually her life changed in positive ways she never expected. In Do You Remember the Color Blue? Sally answers thirteen thought-provoking questions that children have asked her over the years about being blind. Each one addresses a different aspect of her experience, from coping with her loss and dealing with people who don't know how to treat a blind person to marrying a man she couldn't see and being a blind mom.
Illustrated with snapshots from Sally's life, and photographs of interesting gadgets, Do You Remember the Color Blue? is a candid conversation that will change children's ideas about what it means to be blind.
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