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I’m Hannah Fairbairn and this is my blog. I’m here to help you with questions you have about personal, home, and social life with vision loss. Comment on any post, email me, or subscribe to receive occasional email updates:

Hannah@VisionLossAndPersonalRecovery.com

When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes

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My book WHEN YOU CAN’T BELIEVE YOUR EYES: VISION LOSS & PERSONAL RECOVERY is available now in print and accessible versions. It is the first ever guide to coping with sight loss written directly for people dealing with vision impairment and blindness and their families.

Speak Up Skills

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Speak Up Skills presents well-tried ways to speak up and get your needs met. It is for people who live with low vision or blindness. How to talk to people who see well and have never thought about not seeing. It is a companion to my book: When You Can’t Believe Your Eyes.

Vision Loss and Personal Recovery

Repost, How Vision Loss Can Affect the Brain, the New York Times


Re-Post How Vision Loss Can Affect The Brain, the New York Times, Studies suggest that  vision loss in older people who do not receive  vision rehab  can suffer from cognitive decline; losing language, memory,    attention and the ability to identify objects in space. The lead author  of one study, Bonnielin Swenor, John Hopkins Eye Institute […]

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