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How to Use Coping With Sight Loss Online
If you have partially lost your sight, or are losing it, or if a member of your family or a friend has loss of sight, you know the many problems that occur and the need for help. This site is meant to help with some of the problems associated with loss of sight. It should be useful to those who have sight loss as well as to professionals who educate and counsel persons with sight loss.
Using the Resources Directory
Using the Resources menu above, there are many ways to access the information on this site. First, resources available to persons with vision problems are listed according to type of services offered. Use this Category link, where you will find links to: financial assistance, education and training, Support groups, recreation, etc. Also, organizations and services mentioned in this book are listed Alphabetically. You can also search Northern California agencies according to County. Another way to find resources is to use the Complete Sortable Listing option, which allows you to type in key words. You can also download a PDF file of our 2008 Coping With Sight Loss in Northern California (Ninth Edition).
About this Directory
This site is not intended to provide information about all aspects of sight loss. The list of resources provides entry into the community system rather than listing all available resources. To order the free paper edition, or a copy on tape or in Braille, please contact Prevent Blindness Northern California.
Directory Reviewed by the Advisory Committee
Members of the Medical Advisory Committee of Prevent Blindness Northern California reviewed the contents herein. The information and recommendations contained in this site have been complied from sources considered to be accurate. The publication is provided with the understanding that Prevent Blindness Northern California in not engaged in rendering professional eye care services through it's distribution. Prevent Blindness Northern California does not intend that this site serve as a complete resource for eye health, eye care or eye safety information, or as a substitute for professional eye care advice.