Index — General Articles

This site is very much an ongoing project. Even the outline below is not complete yet! Pages that have been published are linked to, pages that have no link are still under construction.

Someday it will be complete… but today is not that day.

1 Understanding Eyes

2 Understanding Vision

2.1 Visual Field

2.2 Fine Detail

2.3 Illumination

2.4 Contrast

3 Understanding Vision Impairment

3.1 Vision Impairment – front of the eye

3.2 Vision Impairment – back of the eye

3.3 Vision Impairment – in the brain

4 Understanding Principles of Low Vision Therapy

4.1 How We All Occasionally Experience Low Vision, and What We Can Learn From It

4.2 Illumination: Making Things Brighter

4.3 Magnification: Making Things Bigger

4.4 Boldness: Improving Contrast

4.5 Visual Field Loss A: Dealing With Peripheral/General Field Impairment

4.6 Visual Field Loss B: Dealing With Macular Field Degradation

4.7 The Reality: Most Impairments Are a Mixture

5 Understanding Practicalities of Low Vision Therapy

5.1 Task Lighting

5.2 Glare Protection

5.3 Magnification A: Substitution

5.4 Magnification B: Go Closer

5.5 Magnification C: Optical Magnifiers

5.6 Magnification D: Telescopes

5.7 Magnification and Contrast: Video Magnifiers

5.8 Cheating is allowed

5.9 Matching Devices to People

6 Why Is Fluent Reading So Hard To Achieve?

6.1 Types of Reading: Spot Vs Pleasure

6.2 How We Read Fluently, and How Vision Impairment Messes It Up

6.3 Why Some Low Vision Aids Are Terrible for Fluent Reading

6.4 Low Vision Aids That Give the Best Chance of Achieving Prolonged, Comfortable Reading

7 Notes on Common Conditions

7.1 Macular Degeneration

7.1a Macular Degeneration: Geographic Atrophy

7.2 Macular Hole

7.3 Glaucoma

7.4 Diabetic Retinopathy

7.5 Cataract and Corneal Scarring

7.6 Stroke-Related Vision Impairment

Have you found this information useful?

This site is a labour of love, developed in my spare time. When it’s finished, I hope it will be a resource that helps people with low vision (and their families and friends) better understand what the problem is with their vision, and how to find the most efficient ways to work around their impairment to maintain their best possible quality of life.

Part of that is a recognition that one of the most helpful things  a person with vision problems can have is the care of a skilled vision professional that really understands vision impairment. So the other mission of this site is to improve the knowledge of  optometrists, opticians, ophthalmologists and orthoptists all around the world, most especially in countries that don’t have access to high quality training in low vision.

The information in this site is (and always will be) free to access. If you’ve found value in what I’m doing here, please consider making a donation to support ongoing development of the site.

Copyright Paul Graveson