I love wearing necklaces and earrings, and I can find my favorite pieces in less than a minute thanks to learning strategies for organizing jewelry with vision loss. I’ve experimented with a few different systems for jewelry organization over the years, including the use of…

One of my friends asked me to help them learn how to organize a dresser with visual impairment after they admitted they had given up on trying to keep clothes organized and just shoved things in drawers, feeling around to locate items and having trouble…

Even though I wear tinted glasses and am sensitive to bright lights, learning about how to choose lighting with low vision and learning how lighting affects my usable vision has helped me tremendously with adapting my living space and workspaces so I can make the…

Math assignments that involve drawing, sketching, or graphing elements by hand can be challenging for students with low vision who may have trouble with fine motor skills, creating visualizations or drawings of concepts, or viewing their own drawings/sketches. Even though I would understand what a…

When learning to identify and plot coordinates and points on a coordinate plane, students with low vision may find it challenging to orient themselves to where items are located on a page or draw coordinates on paper. Even though I would understand the steps I…

One of my favorite events to attend at the library as a child was the therapy dog reading programs that allowed participants to read books to a trained therapy dog. Therapy dog reading programs helped foster my love for reading and writing, as well as…

Math assignments often use multi-column layouts and place text or page elements close to each other to save space, which can be challenging for students with low vision that are already dealing with the high demand visual tasks that come with studying math. While some…

Elementary school math lessons introduce arithmetic and math symbols to students as they learn to add, subtract, multiply, and divide, which can be challenging for students with low vision that find it difficult to tell the difference between different types of math symbols. At one…

Elementary school math lessons often include coin math lessons and activities for learning to identify coins, which can be challenging for students with low vision who have trouble with recognizing coins. I remember as a young student that I knew all of the visual characteristics…

When I was in college, I had the opportunity to meet with staff from the US Bureau of Engraving, which designs and produces paper money for the United States government. During our meeting, I learned about several different tools and strategies that can help people…

When I was first researching colleges in high school, I spent dozens of hours completing online activities that help prepare for college transition that I found on my own. Since then, I have been able to share many of these resources with other students who…

Visual assistance apps, sometimes called visual interpreting apps, are tools that connect blind/low vision users with people or technology that can help them to get information about something that they would not be able to see otherwise. Visual assistance apps for blind and low vision…