Coping with Vision Loss: Maximising What You Can See and Do - Softcover

Chapman, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0897933168 ISBN 13: 9780897933162

Publisher: Hunter House Inc.,U.S., 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Authors

Bill Chapman, Ed.D., has been a consultant for the visually impaired for 30 years. After becoming legally blind, he went on to earn his doctoral degree and founded a mobile low-vision aids service that served Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. The founder of Vision Loss Technology, his primary objective since retiring remains to serve as a role model for others who have lost vision.

Dr. Lin Moore is a low-vision specialist and a professor at the Northeastern State University of Oklahoma School of Optometry.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hunter House Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0897933168
• ISBN 13: 9780897933162
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304