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.

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.

Find Products, Services, and Professionals

• State and Local Vision Rehabilitation Agencies
• Vision Rehabilitation Professionals
• National Organizations of and for People Who are Blind or Have Low Vision
• Searchable Databases
• Products for Independent Living