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Knowing more about how vision changes as you grow older and how to detect, treat and safeguard your sight can help you deal with any problems you may experience. Talk to your doctor about your eyes and your vision. Read brochures that are available from your eye doctor, library or hospital or the Chautauqua Blind Association to learn more about your eyes and aging.
If you have low vision, vision rehabilitation can help you live more safely and independently. Low vision means that, even with standard glasses, contact lenses, medicine, or surgery, your vision interferes with your ability to perform everyday activities. Reading, shopping, cooking, seeing the TV, and writing can seem challenging.What is normal vision?
In order to better understand how refractive errors affect our vision, it is important to understand how normal vision occurs. For persons with normal vision, the following sequence takes place ...
What Is Low Vision?
Partial vision loss that cannot be corrected causes a vision impairment known as "low vision." A person with low vision has severely reduced visual acuity (clearness of vision), contrast sensitivity ...
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Our Services
Vision Rehabilitation is provided to help those with severe vision loss remain safe, independent and productive. A Vision Rehabilitation Teacher will instruct the individual using techniques and/or adaptive equipment that will assist them with their dailiy living skills. Training with kitchen, financial tasks, recreational (sewing, games, etc.), medical, and personal needs are all areas that can be addressed. Providing equipment that will assist with magnification for reading is also part of vision rehabilitation.
Orientation and Mobility, commonly refered to as, "O&M" helps people with vision loss learn to navigate in their homes, workplaces, and neighborhoods in a safe and independent manner.
Orientation is the ability to make a "mental map" of where you are and where you want to go. Mobility is the act of actually getting there. For most of our lives, we apply these skills unconsciously whenever we have somewhere to go. But people with vision loss must both develop and learn to apply new orientation and mobility skills. These skills can include walking with a human guide, the use of a long white cane or dog guide, and techniques for applying memory and the other senses.