Dogs with poor vision do not let their owners know that they have a vision problem until it is severe in both eyes.
In terms of more specific aspects of quality of life, consistent with the World Health Organization's (1998) definition of the construct, O'Donnell (2005) has described the challenges associated
with poor vision in late life to be threefold involving functional limitations, losses in social interactions, and increases in depressive symptomatology.
Thus, a marital relationship marked by these characteristics would buffer the negative effects of poor vision whereby, relative to their peers in lower quality marriages, older
adults with poorer vision who were in better marriages would experience fewer functional limitations, feelings of social isolation, and symptoms of depression.
A new study by vision scientists at the University of Rochester and Vanderbilt University found that
children with poor vision see vast improvement in their peripheral vision after only eight hours of training via kid - friendly video games.
Typically afflicted children start
life with poor vision, which worsens as more and more photoreceptors die.
2/11/2008 UC San Diego Team Shows Correcting Poor Vision Can Help a Preschooler's Performance
Preschoolers with poor vision have lower scores in developmental testing indicative of success in school performance, but those scores improve significantly within six weeks when the children are given prescription glasses, according to a new study b...
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student with poor vision is likely to fail his math test if his parents can't afford the eyeglasses needed to see what his teacher is writing on the whiteboard.
Ideal for
people with poor vision, the DX has a Zoom feature and eight levels of text size, up to nearly a 1/2» letters.
The ease of changing font sizes can make every eBook a large print book and enables libraries to improve accessibility for
patrons with poor vision.
Assists vision impaired users (colour blind or
users with poor vision) distinguish text from background colour, and differences between colours (eg line graph).
Supportive therapies and critical care of a dog
with poor vision due to cloudiness is needed as well.
Despite the link that has been reported widely in the literature between poor vision and quality of life outcomes, older adults are not uniform in their experience of adverse outcomes
associated with poor vision.
That means that, in addition to all the other advantages of e-books — like adjustable font sizes that make it easier for
those with poor vision to read — now your Kindle can read any e-book to you, which opens up the joy of books to the vision impaired, the elderly, or anyone else who can't read printed words.
Blind dogs and
those with poor vision are often reluctant to jump up to or down from heights.
Plaintiff, an elderly woman, alleged the store failed to account for older patrons and
those with poor vision in their architectural designs.
Gunnel and Nordholm (1999) found that reading, writing, and watching television were common functional problems associated
with poor vision.