Learning To Cope With Sight Loss: Six Weeks at a VA Blind Rehabilitation Center

FROM THE AUTHOR
"On the morning of August 13, 2003, my wife arrived home to find me sitting at my desk, staring off into space. 'Sandra,' I said. 'I have bad news. I can't see.' That morning I had suffered a hemorrhage in my left eye that would render me legally blind from macular degeneration."--William L. McGee



BOOK DESCRIPTION
Sight loss can be a stressful event in anyone's life.  Author and former broadcaster William L. McGee tells how he got back to writing in this inspiring, easy-to-read, illustrated ebook.


Six years after Bill McGee was declared legally blind from macular degeneration, he heard about the V.A. Blind Rehabilitation Treatment Program. In 2009, he applied for and was admitted to the V.A. Blind Rehab Center in Palo Alto, California. For six weeks, he resided with thirty other veterans (or "students" as they are called) and together they learned new ways to cope with their various types of sight loss.


The author provides the official description of each component of the V.A. Blind Rehab Treatment Program, and then provides his own experience and first hand account, plus comments from fellow veterans.


This ebook or Audio CD is recommended reading or listening, meant to inspire and inform anyone with low vision, their families, and caregivers.



AVAILABLE FROM AMAZON IN TWO FORMATS

[OUT OF PRINT: PRINT: 36 pp, 35 color photographs, softcover, 8.5" x 11", $9.95]

KINDLE: 15 color photographs, $4.99  

AUDIO CD: A 75-minute recording of the complete text, packaged in a jewel case. Recorded by four San Francisco BayArea Broadcast Legends: Don Mozley (CBS Radio and KCBS/74);  director/writer/producer Ed Dudkowski (KPIX-TV, KRON-TV); Emmy award-winning news anchor Cheryl Jennings (ABC 7/KGO TV); and Warren Weagant (ABC 7/KGO Radio and TV, and Command Productions, Sausalito, California), $12.95

 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Part I, My Vision Loss History
Part II, The V.A. Western Blind Rehabilitation Center
Part III, The V.A. Blind Rehabilitation Treatment Program
Overview
Visual Skills
Orientation and Mobility
Living Skills, Manual Skills
Computer Access Training
Recreation Therapy
Adjustment to Sight Loss
Family Training
Conclusion
Appendix
List of V.A. Blind Rehabilitation Centers
List of Resources for Blinded and Low Vision Non-Veterans and Veterans