Adaptive Equipment

Question 1

Intervention for Low vision:
PRL Training
What is it?
Who is it for?

Answer 1

PRL Training

important aspect of low vision rehab for patients with scotomas (dark spots due to macular degeneration)

teaches people to use intact vision to look around scotomas focus on top, sides, bottom of object. training progresses from static, to tracking to utilizing PRL during saccadic eye movements.

Question 2

Intervention for Low vision:

Intervention should aim to…

Answer 2

Intervention for Low vision:

Intervention should aim to… increase contrast, decrease visual clutter, eliminate glare within home environment.

Question 3

AE for Low vision:

Answer 3

AE for Low vision:
Includes:
1. Large print products
2. magnification optical devices (handheld, stand magnifiers) prescribed to clients
3. illuminated magnifiers (increase surface light)
4. convex lenses (objects larger) Concave lenses (objects smaller)
5. Electronic Magnification (for severe visual impairment) examples are closed circuit television.
6. prisms (shift images into veiwing area) indicated after neurological injury resulting in vision field deficits.

Question 4

AE for low vision:

compensating for tactile sense

Answer 4

AE for low vision: 
compensating for tactile sense
1. typoscopes (check writing guides) 
2. bump dots ( positional markers) 
3. Folding different monetary values in different ways