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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
· Telephone dialers
· 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
Household Tips
· Making using keys easier
· Plugging in electrical appliances
· Making appliances easier to use
· Help in opening mailboxes
· Controlling thermostats
· Doing laundry
Money and finances
· Check writing strategies
· Large print check registers
· Identifying money
· Tax tips for people who have low vision
· New currency reader
· Using credit cards
How lighting helps
· How good lighting helps
· More tips on lighting
· Using night lights to make getting around safer
· Using penlights
Reading and writing
· Reading bills
· Making writing easier to read
· Reading handwritten notes
· Scanning techniques
· Using smartphones to read text
· Adding contrast to text
· Signing names
· Addressing envelopes
· Using a blocking technique to make reading easier
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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
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
Health and Safety
· Accessing emergency services
· Managing medications
· Talking medication vials
· Taking eye drops
· Taking liquid medications
· Taking pills
· Talking blood glucose monitors
· Balance challenges and low vision
· More on balance challenges
· Using oxygen
· Protective technique for travel and low vision
· Prepackaged medications
· Accessible Pharmacy
Facts about low vision
· Low vision and depression
· Strokes and vision loss
· Dual sensory loss
· Macular degeneration
· Mobility and glaucoma
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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
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
Resources
· Help with transportation
· Accessing newspaper stories
· Low vision support groups
· Loaner program for video magnifiers
· A program to help buy adaptive equipment
· The Massachusetts Equipment Distribution Program and low vision
· Microsoft accessibility help line
Technology Tools
· Learning to use video magnifiers
· Using tablet computers
· Tips on using an iPad
· Compact video magnifiers
· The Jitterbug phone
· Voice controlled cable boxes
· Using computer keyboards
· Using iPhones to magnify text
· Adapting smartphones to make them easier to use
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