Functional Vision: A Practitioner's Guide to Evaluation and Intervention

Portada
American Foundation for the Blind, 2004 - 521 páginas
An essential tool for anyone working in the area of low vision, Functional Vision presents a systematic, comprehensive, integrated approach to assessing an individual's functional vision and delivering the appropriate services determined by the assessment results. Based on groundbreaking work by distinguished professionals who have developed the specific principles and procedures for helping people of all ages with low vision, including those with multiple disabilities, the text explains how to link intervention to assessment findings and to teach compensatory skills through everyday activities at school, work, home, and in the community. This detailed and practical guide provides case examples, charts, figures, and sample forms that enable practitioners to apply expert methods in their work with clients
 

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Comprehensive Low Vision Care
3
Visual Functions as Components of Functional Vision
25
Basic Optics and Low Vision Devices
61
EVALUATION OF FUNCTIONAL VISION
87
Optical Correction Information 44 4
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Behavioral Impressions 5
159
Pupillary Responses to Light 6
160
Shift of Gaze 7
161
Color Vision 14
168
Sensory Preference 15
169
Picture Recognition 16
170
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171
Overview of Intervention Methods
257
Interventions for Young Children with
277
Compensatory Instruction for Academically
353
Interventions for Adults with Visual Impairments
423

Eye Preference for Near Work 8
162
Attentional Visual Field 9
163
Distance Visual Acuity Using Symbols Optotypes 10
164
Contrast Sensitivity 12
166
Stereopsis 13
167
Visual Consequences of Most Common
476
Glossary
483
Resources
491
Index
503
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