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

A "Bible" of Vision Rehabilitation...

Coping with Vision Loss offers a wealth of options to those with severe visual impairment. It concentrates on the five leading causes of vision loss: cataracts, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. The author helps readers to understand how these conditions destroy vision and what they can do about it. His approach covers:

• things to know: visual acuity, how we see, eye fatigue and pain 
• skills to learn: such as eccentric viewing and scanning 
• vision aids: large print products, talking appliances, telescopic glasses and more

Chapman teaches readers how they can maximize the use of their remaining visual perception. With the skills and techniques discussed in this book, readers will be able to reduce and even overcome the devastating impact of vision loss, while regaining independence, privacy and self-esteem.

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.