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

Whether you’re an individual with low vision, a practitioner who treats people with low vision, or a professional who creates communication materials for people with low vision, these links will lead you to pertinent information. 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Low Vision Spectacles

    Low vision spectacles are high plus aids used in conjunction with the patients’ distance prescription. They include bifocals, prismatic spectacles, aspheric lenticulars, microscopic doublets, and clip-on loupes. Patients typically request spectacles as their first form of correction because they’re socially acceptable and allow your hands to be free to hold reading material. They come in a wide range of power, are easy to use and have a wide field of view.

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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.

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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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