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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.
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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Visual acuity notation - the pair of numerals that tell you how well (or otherwise) you can see - will be used in this book, so readers need to know exactly what the numbers mean. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bossert Specialties, United States, Library of Congress, Foundation Fighting Blindness, Donald Duck, Macular Degeneration International, Postal Service New!
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- Talking Books by Adult Lib of Congress on page 67
- Expect to Win by Bill Glass in Back Matter
- Cataracts: What you must know about them by Charles D Kelman in Back Matter
- The Encyclopedia of Blindness and Vision Impairment (Facts on File Library of Health and Living) by Susan Shelly in Back Matter
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