Abstract:The decisive shift in attitute from partial blindness and conservation of residual vision towards partial sightedness and maximal use of residual vision in the last fifteen years has resulted in low vision care being a relatively new field of particular concern to health care professionals. In Australia, the first multidisciplinary clinic providing a comprehensive low vision service was established at the Association for the Blind, Kooyong, Victoria in 1972. Since then, a number of low vision clinics in a vari… Show more
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