Low vision is the term eye doctors use to describe vision impairment from conditions such as macular degeneration for which there is currently no cure. Devices such as magnifiers, telescopes and closed-circuit television are designed to help the partially sighted enjoy a quality of life with minimal compromise.

Low vision is a term commonly used among eyecare professionals to mean partial sight, or sight that isn't fully correctable with surgery, pharmaceuticals, contact lenses, or glasses. Low vision can range from some vision impairment, such as tunnel vision or blind spots, to "legal blindness," to almost total blindness.
Low vision has a variety of causes, including eye injury, diseases, and heredity. Sometimes low vision involves a lack of acuity, meaning that objects do not come into focus. Other times, it involves the ability to distinguish colors, see contrasts, or determine spatial relationships among objects.
Vision can be hazy with cataracts; blurred or partially obscured in the central visual zone with macular degeneration; and distorted or blurred with diabetic retinopathy. People with glaucoma or retinitis pigmentosa can lose peripheral vision and have difficulty seeing at night.

www.ncavi.org - North Country Association for the Visually Impaired

www.lighthouse.org/resources_main

www.dfa.state.ny.us/cbvh/cbvh2

acb.org/resources/guidedogs

www.diabetes.org for information on Diabetes

www.amdalliance.org/amd/amd for information on age related macular degeneration

glaucoma-foundation.org/about for information on glaucoma

www.nei.nih.gov

Jordy head-mounted electronic low vision magnifier – Eye Care for the Adirondacks has one on site for demonstration

www.enhancedvision.com/jordy

lighthouse.org/prodpub_products

www.largeprintbooks.com

doubledaylargeprint.com

store.yahoo.com/magazinecity/4005-12 or call (800) 431- 1246

www.walterswebs.com/we28

w3.one.net/~hamilte/disab/wintip95

www.microsoft.com/enable/training/windows98/wizard

microsoft.com/enable/training/vision

www.aisquared.com

www.hj.com/JAWS/JAWS

ngtvoice.com/software/jawbone

www.eyeassociates.com/kurzweil_omni_1000

www.dragonsys.com/products/home_main

www.apple.com

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