WHAT'S NEW AT VISIONAWARE
June 2011

June Holidays:
Home Safety Month; Vision Research Month; Helen Keller's birthday (June 27) and Deaf-Blind Awareness Week (week of June 27)

Home Safety Month

June is Home Safety Month. Learn more about home modifications for people with vision loss, including a comprehensive home safety checklist and information about color, contrast, and lighting considerations for every room in your home:

A Day "On the Road" with Vision Rehabilitation Therapist Stephanie Stephens Van

Our Home and Environmental Evaluation Questionnaire

Room-by-Room: Evaluate and Modify Your Home Environment

Helen Keller's birthday (June 27) and Deaf-Blind Awareness Week (week of June 27)

All About Hearing and Hearing Loss

Hearing Aids: Care and Performance

Learning To Travel with Both Hearing and Vision Loss

New Stories

VEGF Trap-Eye: A Potential New Treatment for Macular Degeneration

An Update and News About "Working Blind": A Documentary Film by Cara Feinberg

Why Do Adults with Visual Impairments Fail To Seek Eye Care?

From Our Mailbag: Gray Or Not Gray - That Is the Question

More Makeup Tips from VisionAWARE and A YouTube Beauty Blogger

A Most Excellent Night Out, Thanks to Serotek and SeroTalk

British Blinded Veterans Host Their American Blinded Comrades In London

A Wheelchair That Can "See" for Blind and Visually Impaired Users

Bioptic Telescopes and Low Vision Driving

Avastin vs. Lucentis for AMD: Preliminary Research Results

From our readers

"Thank you for the excellent information that you provide on your web site, and for your fun and engaging SeroTalk podcast on Looking Good Equals Feeling Good that you took part in. You provide a great service, especially in regard to your advice on appearance. This is such an important topic, given that most people are so visually oriented ... Thank you for the excellent service that you provide."
Mary Ellen Ottman, M.S.
Florida Division of Blind Services

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