Rehabilitating Blind and Visually Impaired People A psychological ap
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Rehabilitating Blind and Visually Im.paired People A psychological approach
Allan Dodds Deputy Director Blind Mobility Research Unit Nottingham
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
First edition 1993 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1993 Originally published by Chapman & Hall in 1993 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1993 Typeset in 10/12 Palatino by Mews Photosetting, Beckenham, Kent ISBN 978-0-412-46970-1 DOI10.1007/978-1-4899-4461-0
ISBN 978-1-4899-4461-0 (eBook)
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This book is dedicated to Hugh Farquharson
Contents
Preface Acknowledgements 1 Blindness: implications of the term
ix
xiii 1
2 Models of rehabilitation
18
3 Psychological adjustment to sight loss
33
4 Perception as information-processing
50
5 The brain
74
6 Special client groups and their problems
93
7 Congenital blindness
110
8 Anxiety, stress and the learning process
126
9 Low vision
142
10 The family
159
11 Taking care of yourself
173
Appendix
188
References
193
Index
200
Preface
The precursor of this book, entitled Mobility Tmining for Visually Handicapped People, received a most favourable response from reviewers and readers alike. It was felt that the aim to present psychological material to non-psychologists had been largely successful, and that the relevance of the material to professional practice had been made clear. However, many people expressed a wish that the book had been longer and had
