Adapting the home and community to assist people
with vision impairments from acquired brain injuries
poses both challenges to and opportunities for rehabilitation
practitioners and researchers. Strategies used to
help peoplewith progressive eye diseases, such asmacular
degeneration, glaucoma, cataract, or retinopathy,
can be useful under certain conditions, but also fail, at
times, to meet the needs of this population.
The National Eye Institute lists assistive technology
development, training, and use among its planning
priorities [33]. To date, vision rehabilitation frequently
includes use of assistive technologies to compensate
for vision impairment and focuses primarily on
people with acquired eye diseases due to their increas