Scale pain assessment adapted to visually impaired patients

Caring for visually impaired patients.

OBJECTIVE To raise pharmacist awareness about the needs and concerns of our patients with visual impairment and to review useful strategies to foster medication adherence. SUMMARY As patient-centered pharmacists, we need to understand the challenges faced by our patients with low vision and tailor pharmaceutical care to best fit their needs. Evidence-based best practices in labeling and writt...

Outcome assessment of the rehabilitation of the visually impaired.

The purposes of this project are to establish the psychometric properties of instruments used to gather data relevant to blind rehabilitation outcomes, to refine the scaling and scoring protocols for the instruments, and to revise and refine the outcome instruments. This 3-year project will gather outcome and demographic data from an estimated 1,200 visually impaired veterans per year, along wi...

Access to Science for Visually Impaired

Plan Recognition to Aid the Visually Impaired

Less than half of the individuals of working age with visual impairments are employed and a significant barrier to employment is effective computer access. Screen reader applications offer some help but have limited context sensitivity and are of limited use in applications with dynamic “interfaces” like web pages. Sophisticated screen readers provide aid through application-specific scripts bu...

Text to Speech for the Visually Impaired

Perusing is fundamental in day by day life for everybody. Outwardly debilitated people can read just by utilization of unique applications by them like Braille dialect. The disadvantage of this framework is that each item does not give the content in Braille. In this paper, they have proposed an assistive content perusing system to help outwardly impeded people to peruse writings from different...