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In this Section

  • When Your Partner Becomes Visually Impaired
  • Making Text Legible
  • Effective Color Contrast
  • Guide Techniques
  • Vision Loss: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask!
  • Clinician’s Guide to Low Vision Practice
  • When Your Partner Becomes Visually Impaired
  • Making Text Legible
  • Effective Color Contrast
  • Guide Techniques
  • Vision Loss: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask!
  • Clinician’s Guide to Low Vision Practice

Lighthouse Guild’s programs, services, and educational resources are designed to help people who are visually impaired live independently. 

Lighthouse Guild’s programs, services, and educational resources are designed to help people who are visually impaired live independently. 

Whether you have vision impairment or care for people with vision impairment, these publications offer tips and strategies to use in daily activities and to improve interactions.

Register for a free Lighthouse Guild eLearning account to download these resources.

  • Self-travel and Guide Techniques

    With proper training and guidance, people who are visually impaired can learn to travel within and beyond their communities. This program describes common self-travel methods as well as detailed instruction in the “guide technique,” an effective way to assist individuals with visual impairment. This online program features a 12-minute instructional video and a 20-page illustrated booklet. Available in English and Spanish.

    Self-travel and Guide Techniques: Learn More
  • Vision Loss: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask!

    Life with vision loss is challenging, but incorporating activities and mobility into your day is possible—and vision rehabilitation can get you there. This large-font, downloadable guide is a valuable resource for people with vision loss as well as their caregivers. Available in English and Spanish.

    Vision Loss: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask!: Learn More
  • Clinician’s Guide to Low Vision Practice

    Caring for people with visual impairment spans multiple clinical disciplines. If you are a vision practitioner or student, this 198-page book reveals how low vision affects the lives of your patients and offers strategies for what you can do to help them through your practice.

    Clinician’s Guide to Low Vision Practice: Buy Now
  • Effective Color Contrast

    The right choice of color, contrast, text size, or font can make all the difference in the world to a person with vision loss. Knowing how to make the best choices can increase the value and effectiveness of materials created for people with vision loss and color deficiencies. This program features two downloadable booklets providing guidance on how to achieve effective color contrast and produce legible text.

    Effective Color Contrast : Learn More
  • Making Text Legible

    The right choice of color, contrast, text size, or font can make all the difference in the world to a person with vision loss. Knowing how to make the best choices can increase the value and effectiveness of materials created for people with vision loss and color deficiencies. This program features two downloadable booklets providing guidance on how to achieve effective color contrast and produce legible text.

    Making Text Legible: Learn More
  • When Your Partner Becomes Visually Impaired

    While a partner’s vision loss undoubtedly changes your life, with time, many couples find ways to adapt positively to the situation. This 18-page booklet provides helpful insights and coping strategies for people who have a partner with vision impairment.

    When Your Partner Becomes Visually Impaired: Learn More
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