Navigating Life with Low Vision: Adjusting and Coping with Vision Loss

Navigating Life with Low Vision – Coping and Adjusting to Living with Vision Loss

By

Tracy Stine

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS LOW VISION.

CHALLENGES OF HAVING LOW VISION

GETTING AROUND

Using a Sighted Guide

Getting Around Alone

Using a White Cane

Other Options

ADJUSTING IN THE HOME

Living Areas

Kitchen

Dining

Bathroom

Miscellaneous

READING AND WRITING

Reading

Writing

HAVING FUN

GETTING TRAINING

RESOURCES

CONCLUSION

CONTACT ME

Introduction

You, or someone you know, has been diagnosed with Low Vision and don’t know where to start? You’ve come to the right place. I have been Deaf and legally blind with low vision since birth. What better place to learn than from someone who’s had over forty-five years of living with it?

I’ve had severe myopia since birth, first with 20/400 vision and then, as a teenager, I had cataract surgery which corrected it to 20/200. But the strongest prescription glasses can only correct my vision to 20/100. Now in my late 40s, I’ve been happily married to my husband and have two children, a boy and girl, who are now teenagers.