Coping with Vision Loss: Maximizing What You Can See and Do

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.

Author: Bill Chapman
Publisher: Hunter House Publishers
Published: 03/27/2001
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.24h x 7.25w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780897933162

About the Author
Chapman, Bill: - 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.Moore, Lin: - Dr. Lin Moore is a low-vision specialist and a professor at the Northeastern State University of Oklahoma School of Optometry.