Low Vision: Research and New Developments in RehabilitationIOS 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 |
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 |
Common terms and phrases
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