Bibliograph

Coping with vision loss, understanding the psychological, social, and spiritual effects, Cheri Colby Langdell and Tim Langdell

Type

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Coping with vision loss, understanding the psychological, social, and spiritual effects, Cheri Colby Langdell and Tim Langdell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Coping with vision loss

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

694733457

Responsibility statement

Cheri Colby Langdell and Tim Langdell

Sub title

understanding the psychological, social, and spiritual effects

Summary

More than one million people in the United States are fully blind or legally blind, suffering impairments from retinal and macular degeneration to eye loss. And as America with Baby Boomers and beyond ages, the numbers of legally blind will double. In this work where the authors are assisted by a blind executive, readers are taken into the world of the legally and fully blind, to understand the practical challenges that creates for the person experiencing vision loss, and also the family members and friends of that person. And the authors, through interviews with experts across fields, as well

Table Of Contents

A brief history of blindness in world literature -- Original fiction by the blind -- The blind writing about blindness -- The spiritual dimensions of blindness -- Current insights into visual impairments and vision loss or change

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