The Arizona Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired is helping people with vision loss or combined vision and hearing loss register for the COVID-19 vaccine as it says the state's registration site ...
About 12 million Americans over the age of 40 are blind or visually impaired, according to the CDC. Because of the variety of visual impairments that exist, it’s difficult to generalize about the ...
The basic categories of visual impairments are total and partial blindness. Only ten percent of the visually impaired population may be able to discern light, colors, or shapes to one degree or ...
Visual impairment can be identified as a loss in the ability to see to a certain extent and is a condition that is not fixable by interventions such as glasses or surgery. On the other hand, blindness ...
Parents in Lesotho who are visually impaired responded positively when a UNICEF-supported vaccination campaign involved ...
Telemedicine came into its own during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the CARES Act, physicians could bill the same amount for a telemedicine visit with Medicare patients as they could for an in-person ...
From left to right: Benjamin Einstein, Frank Welte, Uyanga Shirendev, and Naomi Rosenberg. Image courtesy of the union's organizing committee. Workers with LightHouse for the Blind and Visually ...
For many of us, meeting a person with a visual impairment can be intimidating. What if we do something wrong? "It’s OK not to know," says Amanda Cornelius, a licensed clinical social worker at the ...
FIU engineering majors Gabriel Habech and Michael Romano have always aspired to improve the lives of others through innovation and entrepreneurship. “Our world’s toughest challenges require novel, ...
According to the American Community Survey, 3% of women aged 16 years and older, have a visual disability. The CDC defines visual impairment as legal blindness or low visual acuity (20/200 or worse) ...
WELL, FOR THE FIRST TIME, MANY VISUALLY IMPAIRED OR BLIND KIDS ARE GETTING A CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN A CHRISTMAS TRADITION LIKE THIS. IT’S WRITING THEIR CHRISTMAS LIST IN BRAILLE AND SENDING IT OFF ...