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

• Autore: Langdell Cheri Colby
• Pubblicazione: Santa Barbara, Calif., : Praeger, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Disciplina: 617.7
• Soggetto topico: Blindness; Medicine in literature; Vision disorders - Psychological aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: LangdellTim
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 A Brief History of Blindness in World Literature; 3 Original Fiction by the Blind; 4 The Blind Writing about Blindness; 5 The Spiritual Dimensions of Blindness; 6 Current Insights into Visual Impairment and Vision Loss or Change; 7 Conclusion; Appendix: List of Useful Links and Resources; Works Cited and Consulted; Index
• 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. And the authors, through interviews with experts across fields, as well
• Titolo autorizzato: Coping with vision loss
• ISBN: 1-282-93303-5; 9786612933035; 0-313-34665-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459510803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II