The Self-help Resource Center for Vision LossProfessionals
Welcome to VisionAWARE, a "Self-Help for Vision Loss" web site that provides free, practical, hands-on information to enhance quality of life and independence for adults with vision loss, their families and friends, caregivers, and related professionals.
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Top Content for Professionals
Our website contains hundreds of articles providing useful information on a variety of issues related to living with blindness or low vision. The articles below are a few of our most viewed. If you don't see what you need, be sure to use our site search to find information quickly.
Information About Blindness and Low Vision
- Learn about eye conditions, such as cataracts, macular degeneration, glaucoma, diabetic retinopathy, and low vision.
Coping with Vision Loss
- Learn about support and self-help groups.
- Find adaptations that can help with everyday tasks and independent living.
Stories & Publications from the Field
- Spend a day "on the road" with Stephanie Stephens Van, a Vision Rehabilitation Therapist.
- Meet Bryan Gerritsen, a Certified Low Vision Therapist.
- Learn the basics about safe mobility and outdoor travel for your clients, consumers, and patients from Dona Sauerburger, a Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist.
- Read about Clean To the Touch, a new publication from Perkins School for the Blind.
- Meet Don Golembiewski, Director of Outreach at the Hadley School for the Blind.
- Meet Agnes Austria-Correia from Dialog In the Dark.
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