Lesson 4: Living with Visual Impairments

Topic: Vision Part of: Unit: Challenges and Changes: Sensitivity to Vision & Hearing Compromises

• Focus: Students should gain a basic understanding of what the primary causes of visual impairment and disability are late in life. Further, by donning impairment glasses, students will get an insight into what it is like to live with compromised vision. Students will also learn activities they may undertake to assist a person with vision problems.

Activities | Introduction | Resources & Web Sites

Activities

Activity 4A: Seeing Straight

(visual impairment, impairment glasses, visual defect, simulation, caregiving, visual disorder, sensitivity, disease, aging, detached retina, macular degeneration, glaucoma, hemianopsia, cataract, diabetic retinopathy)

Activity 4B: Processing Out Seeing Straight

(simulation, sensitivity, disease, caregiving, aging)

Lesson Resources

Eye Disorders & Diseases PowerPoint Presentation html version     ppt version 1 MB

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Introduction

Lesson 4, "Living with Visual Impairments" is designed to sensitize students to the problems that may occur with sight in the setting of different eye diseases and conditions. Teachers may either make their own impairment glasses with the students or order them from the source given in the lesson.

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Resources & Web Sites

American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery - clinical and practice management information on cataract and refractive surgery. http://www.ascrs.org/

 

American Macular Degeneration Foundation (AMDF) - leading cause of blindness, more than glaucoma and cataracts combined. http://www.macular.org/

 

Facts About Glaucoma from the National Eye Institute
http://www.nei.nih.gov/health/glaucoma/glaucoma_facts.asp

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