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Driving --- A Right or A Privilege? |
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Dealing With the Threat of Losing Your Driving Privileges |
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Low Vision and its Consequences |
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Getting Some Straight Answers from Yourself and from the Professionals |
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Vision and Driving --- Facts and Fiction |
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What happens to vision as you age? |
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Driving-affecting visual/perceptual functions |
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Visually impaired people can drive --- safely |
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Peripheral vision/visual field |
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The glaring dangers of glare |
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How to look at visual screening tests |
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Would/Should your eye doctor report your condition to your state-licensing agency? |
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The Medical Side of Low Vision |
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Eye Diseases that Affect Your Vision |
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Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) |
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Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) |
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Making an Informed Decision |
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A Quick Self-Testing Questionnaire |
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How to interpret your answers |
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What Do You Need to Know? |
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Know your medical condition |
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Know the law and your legal status |
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Know the latest technical developments in low vision |
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54 | (1) |
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58 | (6) |
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Getting the right vision aid(s) |
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58 | (3) |
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Finding a qualified driving instructor |
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Getting used to the new vision aid |
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62 | (2) |
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A Structured Approach to Low Vision Driver's Training |
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Establish a solid training program |
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Learn to use your vision aid |
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Study for and pass the written tests |
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On the Road --- Driving with Low Vision |
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The Realities of Low Vision Driving |
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Acquiring the habits of good driving |
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19 commandments of the safe driver |
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If all Else Fails --- How to Get Where You Want Without a Car |
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Identifying your transportation needs |
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Combining trips and tasks |
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Finding and utilizing available transportation resources |
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Paying for your transportation |
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Conclusion --- Daring to Succeed |
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Making an Informed Decision |
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| APPENDIX A: FEDERAL LEGISLATION |
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How is the law interpreted? |
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The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), of 1990 |
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| APPENDIX B: INFORMATION/AID SOURCES |
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| APPENDIX C: TERMS YOU SHOULD KNOW |
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Low Vision Driver's Trainers |
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Mobility Trainers/Instructors |
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Daylight glare (solar glare) |
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| APPENDIX D: LOW VISION DRIVING AIDS |
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Bioptic Telescopes --- Types |
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Bioptic Telescopes --- Brands/Makes |
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Ocutech Vision Enhancing Systems® (VES™) |
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Behind-the-lens telescope |
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Combined Contact Lens/Spectacle Telescopic Systems |
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Combined IOL/Spectacle Telescopic System |
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Implantable Miniaturized Telescopic (IMT) System |
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Reversed Telescope for Tunnel Vision |
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Amorphic reversed telescope for tunnel vision |
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Hemianopia Visual Field Devices |
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Visual field awareness system |
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Field Expanding Lenses (binocular prisms) |
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Peripheral prism segment on one lens only |
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Electronic Navigation Devices |
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| APPENDIX E: STATE VISION REQUIREMENTS |
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States permitting bioptics |
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States NOT allowing restricted license |
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States testing color vision |
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124 | (1) |
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States testing visual field |
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States testing depth perception |
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125 | (1) |
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States testing eye coordination |
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States testing luminance contrast |
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States allowing qualified drivers to drive at night with bioptic telescopes |
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States in which physicians are required to report a physical/mental disability |
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States in which physician's report is NOT confidential |
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States in which license can be suspended on referral |
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Tables of state by state vision standards for drivers |
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| APPENDIX F: BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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| Index |
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