Resources
When Should You Move Close to a Senior Loved One?
More often than not, senior people need our help. They may experience health-related problems, chronic illness, and the inability to perform some self-care tasks. Seniors who find it difficult to navigate simple self-care tasks need someone close to them to assist with their day-to-day tasks. Some are forced to join nursing homes or assisted living…
Read MoreChildproofing Your Home for a Child with Vision Impairment
Childproofing your home is an ongoing and potentially costly process (see how much childproofing costs). This routine is made more complex for the parents of a child with a visual impairment. As your child grows and begins to explore their world, there are dozens of opportunities for accidents around the house. The average home is…
Read MoreIs your software up-to-date?
Did you know you receive a discount when ordering from New England Low Vision and Blindness Here are the current versions of the most popular low vision and blindness products: JAWS Developed to help the active computer user (of all ages) with vision loss and inability to see the computer screen or use a mouse.…
Read MoreImprove vision with these items
Sight is a precious gift that enables a person to enjoy the world in a unique way. Yet many people are born with complete or partial vision loss, while others’ vision slowly dissipates over time. Macular conditions include age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which leads to a loss of both central vision and the ability to…
Read MoreMIGS: A New Option for Patients with Glaucoma
It is estimated that over 3 million Americans over the age 40 have glaucoma, and it is said that half the people living with this disease are unaware they have it. Glaucoma is also the second leading cause of blindness worldwide. MIGS: A New Option for Patients with Glaucoma Minimally invasive glaucoma surgical procedures (MIGS)…
Read MoreSmarter Balanced Assessment Testing
The Smarter Balanced Assessment testing is just around the corner. Are you prepared to support students who require a braille accommodation? In a testing situation, a test administrator and a student will use a secure browser environment that supports both automatic and on-demand requests for embossing. If you are not we are here to help!…
Read MoreNavigating The City With A Visual Impairment
What’s it like to navigate the city with a visual impairment? Meet Christine Christine is a Pennsylvania Licensed Social Worker and started a non-profit, Purple House Project PA, to strengthen, empower and transition women who experience Intimate Partner Violence. A single mom living with Stargardt Disease, Christine shares her experiences on the importance of accommodations, the impact of…
Read MoreTop 20 Apps For People With Low Vision – From the Carroll Center Tech Fair
At the end of 2020, the Carroll Center Virtual Technology Fair took place. One of the many valuable pieces of information presented was the Must Have Apps of 2020, to help people with low vision. In case you missed it….. With a seemingly endless number of apps available in the App Store, it can…
Read MoreOutdated Tech? …Consider Trading-In Your Old Clunker
Is your technology room old and outdated? Consider Trading-In Your Old Clunkers? Big November Incentives! Why settle for a loud, slow, gigantic, unreliable, rusty difficult to use old “CCTV” clunker? Consider investing in yourself or your client by taking advantage of our November specials and let the trained low vision specialists at New England Low Vision and…
Read MoreThere’s No Place Like A Smart Home
In the movie, The Wizard Oz, Dorothy recites the famous quote, “there’s no place like home.” I loved the movie, and I agree with her sentiment about being “home.” Home tends to be the place where we are most comfortable and a place we often long for after being away on a vacation, business trip,…
Read More19 New Accessibility Features in iOS 14 That Everyone Can Take Advantage Of
According to the CDC, one in four U.S. adults has a disability, where limitations can involve vision, cognitive function, hearing, motor skills, and more. That’s why the iPhone has accessibility features; so that everyone can use an iPhone, not just those without any impairments. And iOS 14 has only made the iPhone even more accessible, with tools that even…
Read MoreMy Attempt to Use a Screen Reader for Google Docs
The job of a screen reader is just that: to read what is on the screen you are looking at which is certainly quite a good thing when you can’t read it. The screen can be attached to a desktop or laptop computer, a smartphone, or a tablet. How do screen readers work? There is not…
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