[Nfbv-announce] Low Vision Volunteers Needed For Focus Group Activities At Wilmer Eye Institute

[Fredric Schroeder]

>From Jody Silverberg, President

Prince William Chapter

National Federation of the Blind of Virginia
6134 Oaklawn Lane
Woodbridge, VA 22193
703-730-1716
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From: derosagk at aol.com
Date: January 22, 2012 8:30:56 PM EST
Subject: Low Vision Volunteers Needed For Focus Group Activities At Wilmer Eye Institute

 

Dear Lions, please see below regarding the Foundation Fighting Blindness.  

 

If you have any questions, please contact Davida Luehrs (davidaluehrs at gmail.com)



 



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 <http://www.fightblindness.org/site/R?i=qP3aJAIK34V0R1JR0eO5Dw> Recruitment for Vision Research Study: PLoVR

PLoVR <http://www.fightblindness.org/site/R?i=qP3aJAIK34V0R1JR0eO5Dw> Researchers in the Lions Vision Center, part of the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins, are looking for volunteers with almost no remaining vision to help them design vision training activities. If successful, these activities may help nearly-blind individuals learn to see a little better. In the future, blind patients with a retinal implant may use these activities to re-learn to see. 

That’s why we’re calling this program Prosthetic Low Vision Rehabilitation, or PLoVR (like the little bird shown to the right), and you can help make this possible.

If you are at least 10 years old and live within 2 hours from Johns Hopkins, we invite you to come participate in person, talk about how you use your vision, and help us design the activities.  There will be 3-5 one-hour sessions, and we may invite you to come for 20 or more practice sessions, spread out over several years, to try out new activities.

If you live farther away, you can participate by telephone.

There will be 3-5 sessions to talk about how you use your vision.

We will pay you $10 for each hour-long session.

 <http://www.fightblindness.org/site/R?i=qP3aJAIK34V0R1JR0eO5Dw> To learn more about the study and to enroll, please call:

Pamela Jeter at 410-502-6434,
or e-mail us at plovr at lions.med.jhu.edu

JHM-IRB protocol # NA_00043449 – Gislin Dagnelie, Ph.D. – Principal Investigator

 

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