If you live with — or provide care for — a parent, spouse, relative, or friend who is blind or has low vision, VisionAWARE provides free, practical, self-help information to help you problem-solve and find solutions for a wide range of everyday activities, such as adapting daily living tasks to make them safer and easier, making simple, low-cost changes in every room in the home, finding local vision rehabilitation services, and learning more about the latest medical research:

Learn More About Blindness, Vision Loss, and Low Vision

• How eye conditions, such as cataract, macular degeneration, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy affect your vision
• Learn all about macular degeneration in easy-to-understand language from the expert, Dr. Lylas G. Mogk
• What's happening to people who are blind or have low vision and are living in other parts of the world

How to Find Vision Rehabilitation Services and Vision-Related Rehabilitation Professionals

• The vision professionals who are trained to provide vision rehabilitation services to adults with vision loss
• How to locate vision rehabilitation services in your area
• Government and private organizations that provide services to people who are blind or have low vision
• Organizations of people who are blind or have low vision, including support and self-help groups
• Legislation and advocacy resources

Coping With the Emotional Impact of Vision Loss

• Coping with, and understanding, your feelings about vision loss
• Family and friend caregiver concerns
• Talking to children about vision loss

Maximizing the Other Senses

• How to maximize and best use of remaining vision
• Practice exercies in the use of hearing, touch, and smell and how these senses can play an important role in everyday tasks

Self Help: Learning to Live with Vision Problems, from Low Vision to Blindness

• How to make adaptations or use special equipment to safely accomplish everyday activities, such as, such as home management, home modifications, personal self-care, financial management, and using the telephone
• How to safly move around the home
• The importance of lighting and environmental adaptations
• Self-study and self-help resources

Employment after Vision Loss

• Where to find more information about employment for people who are blind or have low vision
• Information on where and how to begin looking for a job

Enjoying Sports, Crafts, Leisure, and Recreational Activities

• Reading and writing alternatives
• How to continue enjoying sports, home mechanics, crafts, and other leisure or recreational activities

Assistive Technology and Special Equipment for the Visually Impaired

• For help viewing this site, see Accessibility Help instructions. You can quickly change the font size and contrast using the "-", "+", and "++" buttons in the banner at the top of each page.
• All about assistive technology
• How to make adaptations on your computer
• Where to find useful adaptive aids and devices

Become a Member of Our Blind and Low Vision Family

• Register for the Are You AWARE? newsletter and be the first to hear the news
• Check our Vision News daily for a digest of the latest vision news on the web
• Ask questions by E-mailing VisionAWARE
• To learn more about the AWARE organization, call 914-528-5120