title: Resources for the low-vision community.
abstract: 1. The NAVH serves, exclusively, an otherwise overlooked group of disabled people--the visually impaired who are not totally blind. Although its numbers increase dramatically each year, the low vision community is largely unrecognized by the public. 2. Parent self-help discussion groups were initiated in the early 60s to help parents who expressed feelings of frustration that they could accept their offspring more readily if the child were totally blind. The first session supplied the vital information needed to prepare the first publications ever written about partially seeing children. 3. The agency has expanded to include all ages and to supply information about vision and vision throughout the world.
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Marchi
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009938:Organizations; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D014481:United States; D015354:Vision, Low / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*