The Kids Low Vision and Reading (KLoVR) study aims to better understand reading ability among children with permanent vision impairment. We need to recruit children ages 6 to 16 with normal vision ...

Compared to the near total permanent vision loss associated with cortical blindness in adults, which is often due to strokes, children with CVI usually retain some functional vision that may improve ...

About 12 million Americans over the age of 40 are blind or visually impaired, according to the CDC. Because of the variety of visual impairments that exist, it’s difficult to generalize about the ...

Experts have identified five elements of a brain-based condition that has emerged as a leading cause of vision impairment starting in childhood in the United States and other industrialized nations.

When Kiana Glanton’s daughter was three years old, everything changed. The autoimmune disease that had been affecting Kiana’s vision for years reached a turning point—she was moving from visual ...

DwellSafe has signed a memorandum of understanding with Duke University School of Medicine to support a student-driven Duke Bass Connections project, “Home Design for the Visually Impaired.” ...

This story is personal. I was born with albinism and am visually impaired. As a child, I was a participant in West Virginia University's Children's Vision Rehabilitation Program. The tools, support, ...

A new report explores how to leverage low-cost methods to enable people with blindness, deaf-blindness, visual impairment or low vision to more easily move through public, urban indoor and outdoor ...

The way a brain tumour influences eyesight largely depends on its location and type. Tumours that develop close to the optic nerve or within areas of the brain responsible for processing vision are ...

SOUTH CAROLINA (WCIV) — Before the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 13 million Americans were living with low or no vision. Vision loss rates continue to soar five years later. "There's very little ...

Pegcetacoplan injections slowed progression of geographic atrophy but had no impact on visual acuity in a real-world setting, ...