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How to stay safe outdoors this winter if you’re visually impaired – more tips
Winter travel can be particularly challenging if you’re visually impaired or blind. Lighthouse Guild’s wide range of services for people with vision loss includes instruction in independent travel, including becoming oriented to your environment and traveling safely in all weather conditions.
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Newly Published Data Adopted as Official WHO-Recognized Estimates for the Prevalence of Blindness and Vision Impairment
The paper, a project of the Vision Loss Expert Group (VLEG) of the Global Vision Database (GVD), provides the latest global estimates of the prevalence of blindness and MSVI in the world.
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New Technologies for Patients with Vision Disorders
As part of our collaboration with Columbia University’s Department of Ophthalmology, we jointly sponsored the Pre-Conference, held before the annual Bressler Symposium.
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Can Brighter Lighting Help with Reading Performance?
That question was asked by researchers presenting “The Effects of Lighting on Reading Speed as a Function of Letter Size” at the 12th International Conference of the International Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation.
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Lighthouse Guild Honors Scientists at Bressler Vision Science Symposium and Pisart Award Lecture
The symposium, awards ceremony and lecture were held at The University Club of New York in October.
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Lighthouse Guild and Columbia Ophthalmology: Working Together to Improve the Lives of People with Vision Loss
For almost two decades, Lighthouse Guild and Columbia University’s Department of Ophthalmology have worked together to improve the quality of vision rehabilitation, advance knowledge of the field and better train practitioners.
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Using the BrainPort® Vision Pro for the Performance of Functional Tasks
The BrainPort® Vision Pro enables perception of visual information using the tongue as a substitute for the eye.
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Psychotherapy and Terminally Ill Patients
With the demographic bulge of the baby boomers entering early old age, more psychotherapists in outpatient settings are going to find themselves working with patients who are facing end of life issues.
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After Hospital Discharge: Does a Diagnosis of Vision Loss Affect the Use of Healthcare?
The subject of post-hospitalization costs was addressed at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
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What is HIV/AIDS?
Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV/AIDS weakens a person’s ability to fight infections. It is contracted through unprotected sex or needle sharing.
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