In Focus: Living Better with Vision Loss
**Rescheduled due to weather – new date April 24!**
Learn more about how you can “Live Better with Vision Loss”!
Co-sponsored by Thetford Community Nurse Sunny Martinson and Latham Library
Dan Norris will discuss adaptive strategies and devices that can help a person with low vision to adapt their hobbies and activities of daily living to compensate for vision loss. The strategies will include adaptive lighting, magnification, contrast, and electronic solutions to accomplish your desired goals.
Librarian Holly Lague will be on hand to discuss the resources available in Thetford and through the wider Vermont library network.
About the presenter
Daniel Norris has served as the Director of Adult Services with the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired since 2012. Dan has been with the agency since 2004. He is also the Vision Rehabilitation Therapy Program Coordinator and Methods Instructor for UMass Boston since May of 2014. He received his master’s degree in Education: Special Education from Portland State University. While working as a TVI, Dan returned to graduate school at UMass Boston, to became both a Certified Orientation Mobility Specialist & Certified Vision Rehabilitation Therapist. He also participated in a five-year project with the Vermont Sensory Access Project to become a Deafblind Consultant. Dan Norris services on several national committees dedicated to improving services for seniors with vision loss. Dan Norris is visually impaired himself, having developed a juvenile form of Macular Degeneration at the age of eight. In this role he has acted as a mentor and role model for many transition aged children in the state of Vermont and elsewhere.