Abstract

This book has been designed to offer expert information to the eye care practitioners so that they can guide and provide basic low vision care to each patient in their small step up. A user-friendly book helps to encourage the optometrists and ophthalmologists to recognize the importance of low vision devices enabling the partially-seeing patient to utilize their remaining vision to its full potential. Contains information to understand the meaning of visual acuity in relation to normal vision low vision and blindness; to identify people with low vision as distinct from those who have normal vision and those who are blind; how distance and near visual acuity is treated in low vision centre; understand the meaning of magnification and its different powers; how to prescribe low vision devices in the correct way, list advantages and disadvantage of each and teach a person with low vision how to use them; understand the importance of rehabilitation and identify those who need it. Helps in understanding th