Functional Vision: A Practitioner's Guide to Evaluation and InterventionAn 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. |
Contents
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 |
Following Tracking | 161 |
Overview of Intervention Methods | 257 |
Interventions for Young Children with | 277 |
Compensatory Instruction for Academically | 353 |
Visual Consequences of Most Common | 476 |
Distance Visual Acuity Using Gratings Stripes | 477 |
Glossary | 483 |
Stereopsis | 489 |
Resources | 491 |
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Interventions for Adults with Visual Impairments | 423 |
Common terms and phrases
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References to this book
Visual Development, Diagnosis, and Treatment of the Pediatric Patient Robert H. Duckman Limited preview - 2006 |