Vision & Health Blog

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  Using the BrainPort® Vision Pro for the Performance of Functional Tasks

  The BrainPort® Vision Pro enables perception of visual information using the tongue as a substitute for the eye.

  

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  Lighthouse Guild and Columbia Ophthalmology: Working Together to Improve the Lives of People with Vision Loss

  For almost two decades, Lighthouse Guild and Columbia University’s Department of Ophthalmology have worked together to improve the quality of vision rehabilitation, advance knowledge of the field and better train practitioners.

  

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  Strategies for Challenging Behaviors in Adult Day Health Care Settings

  Identify: “Challenging behavior” has become the most accepted term for actions whose intensity, frequency or duration puts the emotional and physical safety of the person or others in jeopardy.

  

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  Monocular Vision: Etiology, Symptoms and Rehabilitation

  The main consequences of this – monocular vision – are lack of depth perception and restricted peripheral vision in one eye.

  

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  Valentin Haüy and Louis Braille: Enabling Education for the Blind

  It was Haüy and Braille who would create an entirely new alphabet and establish the world’s first educational institutions for people who are blind, and form the foundation for future disability rights and the inclusion of people with blindness into society.

  

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  Transformative Technological Advancements for the Patient with Low Vision

  The advancement of technology has transformed the world, including how we live, work and interact with one another. Many technological advances in optometry are specifically designed for patients with low vision.

  

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  Strategies for Challenging Behaviors in Adult Day Health Care Settings

  In the setting of an Adult Day Health Care program, the additional burden of challenging behavior puts a vulnerable population in increased jeopardy. Goldie Dersh, PhD, Vice President of Behavioral Health Services at Lighthouse Guild, stresses three principles for optimizing the management of challenging behaviors: identify, intervene and collaborate.

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  Monocular Vision: Etiology, Symptoms and Rehabilitation

  There are a variety of reasons why a person can develop sudden visual loss, including inflammation, vasculitis, trauma and mechanical dysfunction. However, the most common cause is ocular infarction—ischemic damage to the eye—that results in permanent vision loss.

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  Transformative Technological Advancements for the Patient with Low Vision

  The advancement of technology has transformed the world, including how we live, work and interact with one another. Technological advances also have revolutionized medicine, to improve the lives of patients who once were seen as untreatable.

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  Meeting the Needs of Children with Vision Loss

  Linda Gerra, EdD, Director of Children’s Vision Programs at Lighthouse Guild, is an expert on working with children with blindness or visual impairment and the effect of visual impairment on early motor development.