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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785478603321

Autore

Langdell Cheri Colby

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , c2010

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-63214-3

1-282-93303-5

9786612933035

0-313-34665-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 180 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

LangdellTim

Disciplina

617.7

Soggetti

Blindness

Medicine in literature

Vision disorders - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-174) and index.

Nota di contenuto

A brief history of blindness in world literature -- Fiction by and about the blind -- Insights from the blind today : non-fiction writing -- The spiritual dimensions of blindness -- Current insights : what the future holds.

Sommario/riassunto

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.