Vol 3, Issue 2, January 26, 2009

Anne Yeadon, Founder and Executive Director anne.yeadon@visionaware.org

Maureen Duffy, Editorial Director maureen.duffy@visionaware.org

Lylas G. Mogk, MD

February is Macular Degeneration and Low Vision Awareness Month

Learn more about age-related macular degeneration (AMD) from renowned specialist Lylas G. Mogk, MD, Founding Director of the Visual Rehabilitation and Research Center of Michigan, part of the Henry Ford Health System Eye Care Services.

VisionAWARE’s low vision information can help you learn more about low vision terms, low vision optical devices, non-optical devices that can help with low vision, low vision examinations, and vision rehabilitation services.  

Vision Rehabilitation Therapist Stephanie Stephens Van

A Day "On the Road" with a Vision Rehabilitation Therapist

Join Vision Rehabilitation Therapist Stephanie Stephens Van “On the Road” as she provides instruction in adapted daily living skills to three older adults who are blind or have low vision.

Read Stephanie's story and learn more about vision rehabilitation therapy services.

Cover photograph of
Clean To the Touch

Clean to the Touch

This innovative new teaching manual provides easy-to-use, step-by-step techniques that can enable people with visual impairments to accomplish a wide range of housecleaning and housekeeping tasks easily, safely, and effectively.

Read our interview with authors Kathy Bull, Susan Lind-Sinanian, and Ellie Martin, along with an excerpt from the book.

2009 Is Off To a Fantastic Start!

Since we launched VisionAWARE in 2007, thousands of people have visited and used our resources. In 2008 alone, we helped 600 people by answering their personal questions, guiding them to resources and providing support and inspiration. The feedback has been phenomenal. We are truly humbled by the many thanks we receive and the difference we hope we are making in your lives.

We are also grateful to our many individual donors, to The Gibney Family Foundation, and to Readers Digest Partners for Sight Foundation for their generous support that helps us continue to add more helpful information, answer more of your personal questions, and let more people know that we are here to help them.

Please send a donation of any amount today. Even $5, $10, or $25 helps VisionAWARE provide trusted, impartial information and reach more people in need. In fact, we need your help more than ever to help us continue our work. Please help VisionAWARE make a real difference in people’s lives by donating generously today.