Virtual Public Workshop: Patient-Reported Outcomes and Vision-Related Quality of Life Questionnaires
Members of the public are invited to tune into a virtual public workshop on September 29, 2023 from 10 am to 4 pm ET to consider patient-reported outcomes and vision-related quality of life. The session will “highlight the importance of patients’ perspectives, patient-reported outcomes (PROs), and questionnaires to measure visual function and vision-related quality of [...]
New Awareness Video for NDEAM 2023
by B. E. Lewis, RDPFS Intern: As October, National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) approaches, a newly released online video explores the spirit of NDEAM and how it can be celebrated. The video appears on the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) NDEAM website, along with other outreach tools tied to [...]
Expanded Features Introduced to App Customized to Meet the Needs of Individuals with Low Vision
by B. E. Lewis, RDPFS Intern: The ReBokeh app “allows users to adjust the appearance of the world around them in order to fit their specific visual needs.” It creates tools designed for the low vision community, “those who aren’t blind but live with an uncorrectable vision impairment.” Users can adjust the appearance of the [...]
Visiting Museums with Vision Loss: Virtual Events and Insights
A growing number of museums are providing programs that are virtual and, increasingly, their offerings are also accessible to individuals with vision loss virtually and in person. Following are items that explore visiting museums and experiencing works of art accessibly and virtually: Virtual Museum Verbal Description and Touch Tours Verbal Description Virtual Teleconference Tour Exploring [...]
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Tips for Visiting Museums with Low Vision
Veronica Lewis, also known as “Veroniiiica with Four Eyes,” writes that some may be surprised that she loves visiting art museums, uses a blindness cane, and, in fact, visited the Smithsonian Art Museum/National Art Museum frequently when she served as an intern in the area. She notes that “there are a ton of awesome resources [...]
Podcast Visits the “Virtual Studio” of the Curator for a Multisensory Art Experience
Molly Brockman, art curator at Beyond Vision Art, spoke with host Simon Bonenfant on an episode of the Blind Abilities podcast. Brockman lost most of her vision three years ago, and since late 2021, has been totally blind. She recalled “her inspiring story of how her frustration with the inadequacies of her local art museum [...]
Funding Available for Healthy Aging: Optimizing Physical and Mental Functioning Across the Age Continuum
To address the needs of the rapidly growing population of older adults, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has issued a Healthy Aging Targeted Funding Announcement (PFA) to support clinical effectiveness research (CER) studies addressing different stages of aging. Of particular interest are patient-centered CER projects that focus on older adults experiencing vision or hearing [...]
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