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PRELIM Flashcards

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Composition of low vision team

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  1. Individual with low vision family members
  2. Eye care providers
  3. Human service/allied health personnel
  4. Education/rehabilitation specialists
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An ophthalmologist or optometrist who has additional training and expertise about low vision.

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Clinical Low vision specialists

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Purpose of eye care providers

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Assess clinical visual functioning
Matches various treatment options
Prescribes various optical and non-optical devices as appropriate
Provides follow up services and examinations

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Evaluates and treats cognition, communication, and typically addresses swallowing.

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Speech and language specialist

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Evaluates and treats participation in activities of daily living, sensory-motor integration, and upper extremity functional use.

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Occupational therapist

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Evaluates and treats musculoskeletal impairments, posture, positioning, balance and ambulation, and identifies functional physical deficits that may be caused by visual or vestibular impairments

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Physical therapist

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Facilitates effective transition between adolescence and adulthood, and who ensures that an individual is adequately prepared for life beyond school.

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Transition coordinator

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Special education and development of children with congenital disabilities

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Habilation

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Teaching of visual efficiency skills as well as daily living skills

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Habilitation

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No prior experience of learning skills

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Habilitation

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Acquired impairment in late adolescent/adulthood

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Rehabilitation

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Low vision services:

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Habilitation
Rehabilitation
Vision rehabilitation services

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13
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A wide range of professional services that can restore functioning after vision loss

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Rehabilitation

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14
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Have symptoms or changes in organ

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Organic

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Classification by aetiology

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Organic
Functional

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Classification by the period of occurence

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Congenital
Acquired

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Classification by the progression of disorder

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Regressing
Stable
Progressive

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Classification by type of visual disorders

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Loss of VA
Changes in VF
Color deficiency
Reduced contrast sensitivity

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Classification by characteristic

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Acute
Chronic
Recurrent

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Classification by age

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Infants and preschool age
School age
Adults
Elderly

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Classification by social background

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Functional
Dysfunctional
Absent

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Classification by the presence of additional disadvantage

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Changes in appearance
Multiple disabilities
Discriminating or incapacitating situation of permanent nature

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23
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Vision impairment can be:

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Congenital
Acquired

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24
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Adjustment to blindness or low vision depends on:

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Etiology
Progression
Stability
Extent of vision loss

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Loss of vision can be:

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Rapid
Slow

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26
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Impact of vision loss to:

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• Work
• School
• Leisure activities
• Family life
• Friendships

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27
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Erroneously believed stereotypic ideas:

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Inferior and useless
Pitiable
To be feared, avoided esp in intimate relationship
Emotionally and sexually maladjusted
Paying for precious sin, immoral, and evil

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28
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Vision loss impacts three (3) major aspects of a person’s life

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Functional implications
Social implications
Psychological implications

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Functional implications:
Site of disorder determines level of functioning

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• Mobility affected if loss is lower half of visual field

• Reading affected if loss is right field of vision

• Education is a problem if central vision is lost

• Physical activities are difficult if peripheral vision is affected

• Different visual acuities of 2 eyes may cause depth perception problem

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Sociological implications

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• Behavior influences attitude of others toward self, but reflects on individual’s self-concept and self-esteem

• How visually challenged person feels about self, blindness, and attitudes of others towards self are important in self-esteem

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31
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Sociological implications:
Immature and egocentric behavior

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• Visually challenged children and young adults tend to be more socially immature

• Remain more egocentric longer than sighted peers

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Sociological implications:
Isolation and withdrawal

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• Unable to choose companions for conversation

• Wait for others to initiate conversation

• In a group they are unable to participate when comments directed to them

• Unable to observe the nonverbal gestures in social interaction

• Sighted people’s uncertainty about approaching a visually challenged person

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Sociological implications:
Passivity and dependence

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• The visually challenged persons tend to be more passive, less assertive

• The reasons:

• Difficulty to react quickly with appropriate reaction in emergency situations

• Decisions being made on behalf of them without consultation

• Depriving them of developing and practicing their abilities to make choices

• Being unable to observe and perceive social courtesies

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Sociological implications:
Inadequate social role models

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• Visually impaired person finds it difficult to emulate the available role models

• Number, range, and variety of observations are more limited

• Opportunities for participating in social situations more restricted

• Don’t realized some of their behaviors are socially unacceptable

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Psychological implications:

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Denial
Anger
Fear
Grief
Depression
Isolation
Withdrawal
Low self-esteem

36
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Refuse to accept the fact

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Denial

37
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Anger with the situation, with a particular person or with God

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Anger

38
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Fear of losing residual vision, job, leading life

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Fear

39
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Grieving about the loss and the situation

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Grief

40
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Depressed about loss, being involved and lose interest in life

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Depression

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Prefers to be isolated rather than depending to anybody

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Isolation

42
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Uninvolved from all social situations

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Withdrawal

43
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Being low in mood, unwilling to recognize one’s own calibers

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Low self-esteem

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Basic losses to psychological security:
I am not normal.. I am cripple.. I am not a whole person

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Loss of physical integrity

45
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Basic losses to psychological security:
I don’t believe what I hear.. I don’t know what it is that I am touching

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Loss of confidence in the remaining senses

46
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Basic losses to psychological security:
The world is no longer real, the things i knew, the people I knew, and the places I knew, no longer seems to exist

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Loss of reality contact with environment

47
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Basic losses to psychological security:
I no longer see the scenery around me

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Loss of visual background

48
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Basic losses to psychological security:
I was always afraid in the dark

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Loss of light security

49
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Basic losses in basic skills:
I cannot get from place to place

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Loss of mobility

50
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Basic losses in communication:
I can’t read a book… I can’t read a letter

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Loss of ease of written communication

51
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Basic losses in communication:
When I am talking with someone, I can’t see his/her gestures

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Loss of ease of spoken communication

52
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Basic losses in communication:
I am unable to keep with present times

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Loss of informational progress

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Basic losses of appreciation:
I can’t see my children at play, I can’t watch my wife in the kitchen preparing dinner for me..

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Loss of visual perception of the pleasurable

54
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Basic losses of appreciation:
I can’t beautiful sunset, a painting

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Loss of visual perception of the beautiful

55
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Basic losses concerning occupation and financial status:
I can’t play cricket. I must give up my stamp collection

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Loss of recreation

56
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Basic losses concerning occupation and financial status:
I have got to change my work, the job I trained for is now impossible

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Loss of career vocational goal job opportunity

57
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Basic losses concerning occupation and financial status:
Who is going to pay the rent, who will pay for my family’s food

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Loss of financial security

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Resulting losses of the whole personality:

I am “helpless blind man”, I must always depend on others to do things for me

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Loss of personal independence

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Resulting losses of the whole personality:
Blind people are a minority group.. Sighted people are afraid of me

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Loss of social adequacy

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Resulting losses of the whole personality:
I can’t have a private life.. When I use the white cane I am telling everyone to look at me

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Loss of obscurity

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Resulting losses of the whole personality:
I am not much good anymore.. I am poor example of a capable man/woman

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Loss of self-esteem

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Resulting losses of the whole personality:

Blindness has a common power to upset, undermine and change a life-long balance of personality of the individual

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Loss of total personality organization

63
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A number of factors affect individual’s reaction to vision loss:

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Degree of loss
Speed of onset
Medical prognosis
Age at which occurs
Preconceived ideas the person holds about blindness
Other health factors

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• May be a time of withdrawal

• Period of protective emotional anesthesia in response to severe stress

• Cannot predict how long stage will last

• Caring friends and family can just be there and no specific action or words are necessary

• Encouraging a false hope that vision will be restored is not a good idea.

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Shock and disbelief

65
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• Person expresses feelings through a strong negative attitude

• Frustrating for caregivers and family members

• Medical profession, caregivers, family and friends can become the object of patient’s anger

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Anger

66
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• Outright denial of the situation or refusal to accept visual limitations

• At this point a person may refuse to contact with an agency for the blind

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Denial

67
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• Sudden feelings of being different and a sense of loss control may be the basis for this kind of response

• Patient prefers isolation

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Depression

68
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• Person starts to emerge from state of depression and begins to recognize inevitable effect of changed vision

• More realistic to describe adaptation as accepting the unpleasant reality of the situation by recognizing remaining assets and capabilities

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Realization

69
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• Person recognizes that the loss is final and irreversible

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Acceptance

70
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Factors that may help people with vision loss towards acceptance:

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• Meeting others who have managed

• Discovering ways of coping that have worked in past crises

• Time to grieve for their lost vision

• Support from family and friends

• Obtaining practical help with day to day tasks until they feel ready to assume more responsibility

• Obtaining information about available community support

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Basic losses to psychological security

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Loss of physical integrity
Loss of confidence in the remaining senses
Loss of reality contact with environment
Loss of visual background
Loss of light security

72
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Basic losses in basic skills

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Loss of mobility
Loss of techniques of daily living

73
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I can’t comb my hair.. I can’t cook my food..

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Loss of techniques of daily living

74
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Basic losses in communication

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Loss of ease of written communication
Loss of ease of spoken communication
Loss of informational progress

75
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Basic losses of appreciation

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Loss of visual perception of the pleasurable
Loss of visual perception of the beautiful

76
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Basic losses concerning occupation and financial status

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Loss of recreation
Loss of career vocational job goal opportunity
Loss of financial security

77
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Resulting losses of the whole personality

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Loss of personal independence
Loss of social adequacy
Loss of obscurity
Loss of personal total organization
Low self-esteem

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