Craft Adaptations for Adults with Vision Impairments

NEW INDEPENDENCE! Craft Adaptations for Adults With Vision Impairments (Revised)

Author: Stephanie Stephens Van
Editor: Maureen A. Duffy
150 pages, available in Acrobat PDF format

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Crafting keeps the creative spirit active and energized and is a source of great satisfaction, joy, pride, and accomplishment for many participants. Crafts can be used for therapeutic or social purposes, and can be enjoyed as solo or group experiences. The emphasis, however, should always be enjoyment!

People who have enjoyed making crafts at different times in their lives prior to vision loss may think they can no longer continue. Also, individuals who would like to begin making crafts for the first time may hesitate because of reduced vision. But we know, from years of teaching experience with individuals who have little or no sight, that it is possible to continue the enjoyable activity of craft-making. This book — with its extensive range of easy adaptations — will show you how it can be done!

The contents have been tried and tested over many years by Vision Rehabilitation Therapist and author Stephanie Stephens Van. Stephanie is a highly qualified, experienced, and respected professional within the field of vision rehabilitation. This updated and expanded version includes five additional crafts, and a new introduction, resource section, and hints list.

About the Author

Stephanie Stephens Van, M.A., CVLT has 25 years experience as a Vision Rehabilitation Therapist, Rehabilitation Teacher, and Certified Low Vision Therapist. She has been an Activities Director, Supervisor of Rehabilitation and Social Services, and consultant for a variety of public and private vision rehabilitation agencies. Stephanie has a Master's degree in Blind Rehabilitation from Western Michigan University.

She also wrote A Day on the Road with Vision Rehabilitation Therapist (VRT) Stephanie Stephens Van [5], an informative article that explains to readers of VisionAWARE what a VRT does to help people cope with vision impairment.

Stephanie has lectured nationally on adapted crafts and leisure activities; adjustment to blindness and low vision; functional vision skills; and activities of daily living. She is also an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Graduate Studies in Vision Impairment at Salus University (formerly the Pennsylvania College of Optometry.)

NEW INDEPENDENCE! Craft Adaptations for Adults with Vision Impairments (Revised) is published by AWARE (Associates for World Action in Rehabilitation and Education), PO Box 96, Mohegan Lake, New York, 10547, USA; 914-528-5120.

Our sincere thanks also go to Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation for supporting the original and revised versions of New Independence! Craft Adaptations for Adults with Vision Impairments

For more information, contact the above address or visit www.visionaware.org [6]. E-mail: info@visionaware.org [7]

This and other publications may be ordered from AWARE. All requests for reprint permissions should also be addressed to AWARE.

1997 AWARE; Revised 2007
All rights reserved
ISBN 978-1-882503-08-7