First developed in 1983, the Blindness and Low Vision Studies (BLVS) Department offers four master’s degrees and certificate programs in Low Vision Rehabilitation (LVR), Orientation and Mobility (O&M) ...

NEW YORK-- The New York state Department of Motor Vehicles says thousands of driver's licenses are suspended for failing to submit a vision test. Between March 1, 2020, and Aug. 31, 2021, due to the ...

ALBANY — About 51,000 drivers statewide face a suspension of their licenses on Friday if they don’t comply with a COVID-19-related measure that allowed some drivers to defer their required vision test ...

Vision is our most important sense, which makes taking care of it essential. 93 million American adults are at high risk for serious vision loss, but only half of them have visited an eye doctor's ...

As a child, Kathryn Marxen-Simonson often felt embarrassed by her poor eyesight and did not want to stand out from other kids. At school, she wouldn’t use tools like magnifiers that could have helped ...

Assistive technologies like screen readers go a long way toward closing the gap between people who are blind or have low vision and their sighted peers. But the technologies often hit roadblocks ...

Zachary Morris' research presented here is funded from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.