A Co Down teenager, who has a visual impairment, has for the third consecutive year become the Northern Ireland Senior School ...

Objective: To study recent trends in the cumulative incidence of visual impairment in childhood over a 15-year period and to assess progress against WHO goals for prevention. Design, setting and ...

"When I am skiing, I feel free, it’s just me and the slope. I don’t need a cane, I only need a guide when racing, so it feels like I’m totally independent" ...

More than one in 10 people over the age of 50 have uncorrected visual impairment. This means problems with sight that haven’t been corrected by wearing glasses, lenses or having surgery or treatment.

Introduction Vision impairment and eye disease are major global health ... is an important measure of the impact of eye health on people’s daily activities, well-being and visual function, and is ...

Aim From the most recent data the magnitude of visual impairment and its causes in 2010 have been estimated, globally and by WHO region. The definitions of visual impairment are the current ...

A new international guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for screening, assessment, and management of visual impairment, which affects about 75% of stroke survivors.

California State University, Los Angeles offers an Educational Specialist Credential in Visual Impairment (VI) and a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Special Education with an emphasis in Visual ...

Both scales have been used and validated worldwide. A total of 58 Greek athletes with physical disabilities or visual impairments were selected to collect data on the three types of abuse experience ...

The University of Liverpool’s Professor Fiona Rowe has led the development of a major new international clinical guideline addressing visual impairment in stroke survivors. Released by the European ...

Statistical analysis, performed using R software, employed binomial logistic regression to calculate odds ratios (OR), confidence intervals (CI), and p-values, identifying neurological disorders ...

The Centers for Disease Control estimates microphthalmia and another visual impairment, anophthalmia, occur in 1 in every 5,100 babies at birth in the United States. LeMaster reads Braille and ...