This book begins with a promise: people with severe vision loss can be
trained and equipped to function as sighted. The author, himself legally
blind for 30 years, fulfills that promise with precise information and
guidance on improving life through visual rehabilitation. The book
explains fundamental facts about eyes and vision, including the causes
and varieties of blindness, and then moves on to the new skills the
partially sighted person must learn. Specific approaches and devices are
covered in depth, including eccentric viewing and driving with
telescopic glasses, and the visual and electronic aids that can help
overcome the effects of vision loss. In spite of his own limited vision
(20/240), Dr. Chapman uses a computer without a voice synthesizer,
watches TV, and even drives, and he shows readers how to do the same.