02896nam 2200697 a 450 991082570760332120101001100936.0979-84-00-63214-31-282-93303-597866129330350-313-34665-810.5040/9798400632143(CKB)2670000000059875(EBL)617055(OCoLC)694733457(SSID)ssj0000414933(PQKBManifestationID)12163890(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000414933(PQKBWorkID)10409513(PQKB)10817698(Au-PeEL)EBL617055(CaPaEBR)ebr10437143(CaONFJC)MIL293303(DNLM)101542219(OCoLC)1229484809(DLC)BP9798400632143BC(MiAaPQ)EBC617055(EXLCZ)99267000000005987520100927e20102024 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCoping with vision loss understanding the psychological, social, and spiritual effects /Cheri Colby Langdell and Tim Langdell1st ed.Santa Barbara, Calif. :Praeger,c2010.New York :Bloomsbury Publishing (US),2024.1 online resource (x, 180 pages)Description based upon print version of record.979-82-16-06639-2 0-313-34664-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-174) and index.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.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.BlindnessMedicine in literatureVision disordersPsychological aspectsBlindness.Medicine in literature.Vision disordersPsychological aspects.617.7Langdell Cheri Colby1616108Langdell Tim1616109DNLM/DLCDLCUtOrBLWBOOK9910825707603321Coping with vision loss3946668UNINA