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Five Tips for People with Vision Loss from Lighthouse Guild Social Workers
Social workers are essential in helping people with vision loss manage challenges. From addressing urgent and chronic life issues, to making sure people can get to their appointments, get their medications and access needed medical equipment, social workers are on hand to offer professional guidance and smooth the way.
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Does My Child Have a Vision Problem?
Healthy vision is crucial for a child’s learning ability and is one of the keys to success in school. When children struggle to see the board or the computer screen, it can affect their attention, comprehension, and ability to follow instructions in the classroom.
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How the Simple QR Code Became an Empowering Navigation Tool
This episode’s big idea is navigation and how to implement a navigation solution that enables people with vision impairment to broadly travel cities — how and when they want to, independently. Dr. Roberts talks with Javier Pita, the creator of such a technology called NaviLens, which marries location finding with information.
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Restoring Vision: Code Breaking and Optogenetics
Until recently, no one knew the code the retina used to communicate with the brain to create sight. Our guest Dr. Sheila Nirenberg, a neuroscientist at Weill Cornell, and Principal and Founder of Bionic Sight has — using input-output mapping — cracked the retina’s neural code, enabling her to recreate the electric signals to the brain that could restore sight in people with retinal degeneration.
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Integrating Touch and Sound
Today’s big idea is how we can use touch and sound together to create spatial awareness. Just like learning to play the piano or another instrument, smart cane technology engages the both sound and touch to compensate for loss of vision. Kürşat Ceylan, the founder and CEO of WeWALK, shares how the WeWALK smart cane engages a number of senses to develop new autonomy for users, and how their technology is a jumping-off point for integrating other technologies.
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Smart Cities and Autonomous Driving: How Technology is Providing Greater Freedom of Movement for People with Vision Loss
Advances in technology are giving people more freedom of movement than ever before, allowing them to get where they want, when they want, safely.
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Balancing Innovation and Ethics: Who is Protecting the Early Adopters?
Innovations in implant technology are advancing at lightning speed, profoundly impacting the lives of people who are blind or visually impaired. In ON TECH AND VISION, we’ve profiled some amazing new implant technologies that have the potential to restore people’s sight. But in this episode we pump the breaks — because we need to address a critical part of the innovation process: the ethical frameworks that protect participants in early clinical trials.
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Women’s Eye Health Tips from Lighthouse Guild
macular degeneration, disorders that can lead to vision loss if left unchecked. Pregnancy and menopause can also impact vision.
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Improving Visual Impairment with Technology
This episode’s big idea is about using augmented reality, machine learning, and soon fifth-generation (5G) connectivity to improve vision.
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Innovation Process from Big Idea to Reality
This podcast is about big ideas on how technology is making life better for people with vision loss.
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