Low Vision: Research and New Developments in Rehabilitation

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IOS Press, 1994 - 596 pages
Social, political and organisational conditions for the efficacy of research activities for the partially sighted -- Do Persons with Low Vision Have Special Rights?: A Challenge for Service Providers and An Opportunity for Consumers -- GROWN UP AND VISUALLY HANDICAPPED -- Psychological adjustment to sight loss: A structural model -- VISUAL IMPAIRMENT AND EATING DISORDERS -- Visually impaired studying at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) -- THE PLACE OF LOW VISION DEVICES FOR STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS FOR BLIND IN KENYA AND UGANDA -- AN ASSESSMENT OF THE VISUAL STATUS OF GUIDE DOG OWNERS IN NORTHERN IRELAND -- Meet the elderly -- Social-emotional Aspects in a Sample of Young Persons with Usher's Syndrome Type I -- Part IV -- Benefits to Clients arising from the Provision of Audiology Services within the Low Vision Clinic -- Some Results of Cochlear Implants in 4 Persons with Usher's Syndrome Type I -- Effects of training assertive behaviour in groups of visually handicapped adults -- Teaching Social Skills through a Social Use of Language Programme. -- Finding employment for visually impaired people in the Netherlands -- Quantitative Motor Diagnostics With Blind and Visually Impaired Children by Means of the Physical Coordination Test for Children -- The attitudes of family or friends towards orientation and mobility training -- Mobility Programs: Clients With Vision and Intellectual Impairments -- Lists of Steps for A.D.L. Training -- VISUALLY AND MENTALLY - MULTI - HANDICAPPEDCHILDREN AND ADULTS: TRAINING PROGRAMMES OF ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING -- ONE BOWLS PLAYER'S VISION PROBLEMS SOLVED -- 4 Integral Rehabilitation Model -- Part I -- Evaluation of Low Vision Rehabilitation Using Individual Program Plans -- EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF SERVICE ASSISTANCE AT THE VISUAL ADVICE CENTRE EINDHOVEN (VAC) -- A Study on Vision rehabilitation effectiveness

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Contents

Part I
7
Limits and Mechanisms of Vision W A van de Grind
28
On the Relationship between Letter Acuity and Reading Acuity A Arditi
47
Mapping the Topography of Residual Vision after Macular Vision Loss
59
Optimizing Illumination for Visually Impaired Persons Comparing Subjective
68
and Objective Criteria F W Cornelissen A C Kooijman
76
Testing Color Vision of Visually Impaired Person J P Menu
85
Contrast Sensitivity as Part of a Visual Assessment of Visually Impaired
93
Revalidation on Homonymous Hemianopic Patients A Neetens
296
Part IV
313
LILLY GOGO Multimodally Stimulating Materials G Jaritz
327
Part I
347
Insight into Visual Impairment P L Looijestijn
354
Part II
362
Playtherapy for Partially Sighted Children C J van Gendtvan Evert
369
A Challenge for Service
376

Groningen Edge Contrast Chart GECKO and Glare Measurements
100
Visual Informa
111
Adaptation of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development for Visually Impaired
121
A Retro
129
ITVIC An Intelligence Test for Visually Impaired Children R Boter
136
Part I
147
Results of a Prospective Study U L Nilsson and S E G Nilsson
155
New Ergonomic Stand Magnifiers L A Spitzberg and G L Goodrich
163
Occupational Therapy and the Guidance in the Use of Low Vision Aids
171
Artificial Corneas for the Third World? The Best Efforts for the Worst Case
178
Ergonomic Workplace Design for a Visually Impaired Person
185
Video Enhancement of Text and Movies for the Visually Impaired E Peli
191
Practical Recommendations
199
Designing the Occupational Environment for Visually Impaired Persons
208
An Electroluminescent Aid for Low Vision Readers S Fazenbaker
218
Lighting and Quality of Life A study among Older People S Sorensen
223
Print Enhancement for Eccentric Vision F L Engel and A J W Jenniskens
239
Reading Training Four Cases S Ighe
255
Reading and Vertical Magnification with Retinitis Pigmentosa L A Spitzberg
275
Grown Up and Visually Handicapped A Bergsten Brucefors
385
Visual Impairment and Eating Disorders A J van de Wege
392
The Place of Low Vision Devices for Students in Schools for Blind in Kenya
400
Meet the Elderly P Verstraten
408
Benefits to Clients arising from the Provision of Audiology Services within
415
Effects of Training Assertive Behaviour in Groups of Visually Handicapped
423
Teaching Social Skills through a Social Use of Language Programme
430
Finding Employment for Visually Impaired People in the Netherlands
437
The Attitude of Family or Friends towards Orientation and Mobility Training
445
One Bowls Players Vision Problems Solved H Obstfeld
461
A Study on Vision Rehabilitation Effectiveness G Walczak
477
Are Low Vision Aids still used Six Months after Prescription? J J Neve
494
The Implications for India in the Manage
510
An Interdisciplinary Model for the Rehabilitation of Visually Impaired
527
Visual Acuity Measurements for Low Vision A Colenbrander
542
A Method to Evaluate and Rehabilitate the Functional Vision of Visually
562
Functional Diagnosis and Rehabilitation in Proposals for an Information Sup
575
The Importance of Social Work with the Multidisciplinary Assistance of
588
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