Vision & Health Blog

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  Eye Health Tips

  May is Healthy Vision Month, but taking care of your eyes should be a health priority year-round, like eating a balanced diet and being physically active.

  

• Blog

  Mental Health Awareness Can Help with Vision Loss

  Mental health awareness and management are vital to a healthy lifestyle and influence thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Some people who experience vision loss later in life are more vulnerable to mental health struggles but are unaware of them.

  

• Blog

  Providing Assistance to People who are Visually Impaired

  This 11-minute video presentation identifies situations where a person who is visually impaired may want assistance from another person, demonstrates the proper way to offer assistance to and walk with a person with vision impairment, and describes strategies for effective communication, including descriptive talking.

  

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  Common Causes of Vision Impairment

  This 16-minute video presentation discusses vision-threatening eye diseases and conditions most common in adults, including their symptoms, causes and impact on vision. Approaches for avoiding preventable vision loss and maintaining good eye health are also provided.

  

• Making the Holidays Bright for Children with Visual Impairment

  The holiday season is upon us! This can be an exciting and busy time of year for everyone. For parents of children with visual impairment…

  

• Blog

  Losing Vision Doesn’t Mean Job Loss, there is Help Available

  When someone is losing vision for the first time or losing additional vision due to a progressive condition and finding the function of how they…

  

• Blog

  The Cooking Without Looking TV Show Lighthouse Guild Edition

  “Cooking Without Looking,” hosts Allen Preston and Annette Watkins are joined by three guests from Lighthouse Guild – clients Cathy Phillips and Laura Good, along…

  

• Blog

  BACK-TO-SCHOOL: Learning For Visually-Impaired Children & Teachers 

  By Wendy Devitt and Margaret Walters   Originally posted on Able News Going back to school is an exciting time full of new beginnings. This…

  

• Blog

  Tech for Everyone: Making iPhones Accessible to Users with Vision Loss!

  Angel Pacheco, Program Administrator at Lighthouse Guild speaks at the recent DOROT Tech Event about how to make iPhones accessible to users with vision loss.…

  

• On Tech & Vision Podcast

  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.