Coping with Vision Loss

This book explains in detail what it is like to be losing sight legally blind or fully blind and also documents why today''s exciting technological advances and medical solutions are lifting limitations for the visually impaired.Dr. Cheri Langdell a professor of English and Dr. Tim Langdell a clinical psychologist and digital media expert take us through personal psychological sociological and cultural perspectives on blindness andperhaps surprisinglyshow us some of the benefits nearly blind and blind people have found after vision loss. These benefits include what some describe as heightening of the other senses deepening spiritual sight and stronger insights into the human condition. Through literature media and cinema across the ages the authors focus attention on how the masses worldwide who are sighted view and treat the blind and legally blind. Coping with Vision Loss: Understanding the Psychological Social and Spiritual Effects also includes non-fiction written about and by the blind that gives great insight into their condition. The text explains what the visually impaired and blind can do to stay strong and live their lives to the fullest as well as what family members and friends can do to help when needed or to back off when one wants to be as independent as possible. Technological advances to assist the blind and legally blind are reviewed as are websites for a host of organizations created to assist people with vision loss.