Helpful Hints
Examples of our lessons
Links to Helpful Resources
General Tips
- Information on programs from phone companies for people who have disabilities
- Dealing with glare
- Safe travel technique
- Going down stairs with more safety
- Reading wrist watches
- Talking wrist watches
- Using peripheral vision
- Using low vision spectacles with more success
- Going to restaurants
- Grocery shopping
- Program to help order groceries
- Making voting accessible
- How Eccentric Viewing helps
- Using magnifiers successfully
- How bump dots help patients use appliance controls
- Using voice recording
Facts About Low Vision
Personal Care
- Brushing teeth
- Taking showers with safety
- More showering tips
- Shaving
- Applying makeup
- Applying eyebrow makeup
- Hearing aids and low vision
- Taking baths with safety
Eating and Cooking
- Pouring a cup of coffee or tea
- Brewing coffee
- A safe way to make coffee or tea
- Microwave cooking
- Cutting meat
- Cutting other food
- Tips to make eating easier
- Eating with arthritis and low vision
- Moving food from the counter to the table
- Cooking frozen dinners
- Food preparation
- Making reading recipes easier and low vision
- Making stovetop cooking safer
- A safer way to boil water
- Washing dishes
- Measuring out ingredients
Money and finances
Household Tips
- Making using keys easier
- Plugging in electrical appliances
- Making appliances easier to use
- Help in opening mailboxes
- Controlling thermostats
- Doing laundry
Recreation
- The Talking Book Program
- More on the Talking Book Program
- Keeping up with the news and low vision
- Accessing books and Magazines
- Audio described videos
- Descriptive narration for movies
- Playing cards
- Watching television
- Watching television using notebook computers
- Using tv remote controls
- Doing jigsaw puzzles
- Teaching someone to do latch hooking
- Sewing
- Doing woodworking
- Reading and playing music
- Taking up painting again
- Large print puzzles
- Doing needlepoint
- Large print Bibles
- Reading using a magnifier
- Doing gardening again
- Large print bingo cards
Getting Organized
- Keeping track of appointments
- Finding shoes in a closet
- Organizing clothing
- Creating personal phone books
- Organizing refrigerators and freezers helps people who have lost vision
- Being organized in the kitchen
- Setting up files
- The PenFriend- a way to label items
- Organizing mail
- Strategies to organize important papers
Reading and Writing
How Lighting Helps
- How good lighting helps
- More tips on lighting
- Using night lights to make getting around safer
- Using penlights