The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment
The Routledge Handbook of Visual Impairment examines current debates as well as cross-examining traditionally held beliefs around visual impairment. It provides a bridge between medical practice and social and cultural research drawing on authentic investigations.
It is the intention of this Handbook to provide an opportunity to engage with academic researchers who wish to ensure a coherent and rigorous approach to research construction and reflection on visual impairment that is in collaboration with, but sometimes beyond, the medical realm.
This Handbook is divided into ten thematic areas in order to represent the wide range of debates and concepts within visual impairment. The ten themes include:
cerebral visual impairment;
education;
sport and physical exercise;
assistive technology;
understanding the cultural aesthetics;
socio-emotional and sexual aspects of visual impairment;
orientation, mobility, habitation and rehabilitation;
recent advances in eye research and sensory substitution devices;
ageing and adulthood.
The 27 chapters that explore the social and cultural aspects of visual impairment can be taken and used in a variety of different ways in order to promote research and generate debate among practitioners and scholars who wish to use this resource to inform their practice in supporting and developing positive outcomes for all.
John Ravenscroft , PhD (Chair of Childhood Visual Impairment) is a psychologist, educationalist and lectures a little in philosophy. He has vast experience of inclusive education, and has advised various governments, locally, nationally and internationally on promoting inclusive education. Professor Ravenscroft is also Head of the Scottish Sensory Centre, which is a national centre that provides career-long professional development for teachers of children with sensory impairment, including those with cerebral visual impairment. He is also the current editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Visual Impairment and lectures on inclusive education, visual impairment, as well as on areas of virtue epistemology and ontology. He has published widely on visual impairment, disability and research methods.
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The Routledge Handbook
of Visual Impairment
Edited by John Ravenscroft
First published 2019
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Names: Ravenscroft, John, author.
Title: The Routledge handbook of visual impairment / John Ravenscroft.
Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge international handbooks | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018051608| ISBN 9781138085411 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315111353 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Vision disorders. | Vision disordersCase studies.
Classification: LCC RE91 .R38 2019 | DDC 617.7dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018051608
ISBN: 978-1-138-08541-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-11135-3 (ebk)
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Carla J. Abbott , BOptom, PhD, is an optometrist with a research interest in retinal and optic nerve disease, including translational clinical research. Her research career has focused on evaluating the structure and function of the retina in disease. She is currently at the Centre for Eye Research Australia and Department of Ophthalmology in Melbourne, Australia, involved in safety and efficacy testing of pre-clinical bionic eye devices and evaluating a visual prosthesis for patients with inherited eye disease.
Penelope J. Allen , MBBS, FRANZCO, is an ophthalmologist and vitreoretinal surgeon at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital and the Centre for Eye Research Australia. She is the lead surgeon and principal investigator for the Melbourne-based suprachoroidal prosthesis trials. Dr Allen is also an expert on intraocular infection (endophthalmitis) and vitreoretinal surgical techniques.
Vassilios Argyropoulos , PhD, is Associate Professor at the University of Thessaly (UTH), Greece, in the area of visual impairment since 2003. Previously, he had taught in the Center of Education and Rehabilitation for the Blind in Athens for ten consecutive years. He has participated in a number of national, Erasmus + and Horizon projects in the areas of special education and he runs as a coordinator an Erasmus + programme since 2014. He serves the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairments (ICEVI) as the contact person in Balkan countries. He is also a member of the Committee of the Disability Centre at the UTH, which supports students who have disabilities and special educational needs during their studies.
