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Strategies for Challenging Behaviors in Adult Day Health Care Settings
In the setting of an Adult Day Health Care program, the additional burden of challenging behavior puts a vulnerable population in increased jeopardy. Goldie Dersh, PhD, Vice President of Behavioral Health Services at Lighthouse Guild, stresses three principles for optimizing the management of challenging behaviors: identify, intervene and collaborate.
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Monocular Vision: Etiology, Symptoms and Rehabilitation
There are a variety of reasons why a person can develop sudden visual loss, including inflammation, vasculitis, trauma and mechanical dysfunction. However, the most common cause is ocular infarction—ischemic damage to the eye—that results in permanent vision loss.
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Transformative Technological Advancements for the Patient with Low Vision
The advancement of technology has transformed the world, including how we live, work and interact with one another. Technological advances also have revolutionized medicine, to improve the lives of patients who once were seen as untreatable.
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Meeting the Needs of Children with Vision Loss
Linda Gerra, EdD, Director of Children’s Vision Programs at Lighthouse Guild, is an expert on working with children with blindness or visual impairment and the effect of visual impairment on early motor development.
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The Evolution of Braille: Recognizing Louis Braille on His Birthday
Louis Braille, the French educator and inventor of the Braille reading and writing system, was born on January 4, 1809. As a result of an early childhood accident, Braille lost vision in both eyes.
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Educating Others about Vision Impairment: What Do You Do When You Meet Someone Who Can’t See?
With the passage of the ADA, the United States Congress found that “physical or mental disabilities in no way diminish a person’s right to fully participate in all aspects of society.” The rights of people with vision impairment are included in the enforcement of this landmark legislation.
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Why Braille literacy matters
We recognize the contributions of Louis Braille who invented the code of raised dots, which allows people who are visually impaired or blind to read using a tactile system.
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Celebrating World Braille Day and a new code
January 4 is World Braille Day. We honor Louis Braille, born on this day in 1809 in France, who invented the Braille and after whom the code is named.
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