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Vision loss changes more than how you see the world. It can affect your mental health, too - how you feel about yourself, your future, and your place in your community. Roughly 50 million American adults live with some degree of vision loss, according to

A detached retina doesn't hurt, which is exactly what makes it so dangerous. There is no pain to warn you, only changes in what you see. Knowing those changes, and acting on them fast, can be the difference between saving your sight and losing it. Here's

There's something irreplaceable about getting lost in a good book. It connects us to ideas, to other people's stories, to the wider world. That doesn't have to change when your vision does. Today, people who are blind or have low vision have more ways tha

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, a time to celebrate workers with disabilities and the workplaces that make room for them to thrive. At NewView Oklahoma, that work happens every day. This month, we sat down with two members of ou

Every year people show up at NewView Oklahoma who don't have to. They read mail aloud for a client who can't see it anymore. They support a beep baseball practice on a hot Saturday morning. They stuff envelopes for a fundraiser, greet guests at an event,

If you've recently caught yourself holding a menu, a phone, or a good book farther away just to bring the words into focus, you're not alone and you're not imagining it. This is one of the most common vision changes adults experience as they get older, an

At eighteen months old, one of Bella's family members noticed something small but telling: her eye seemed to be drifting. That observation led to a diagnosis that would define much of Bella's childhood: an optic nerve glioma, which is a brain tumor sittin

Alex was born with cataracts, which were removed shortly after birth. For the first 11 years of their life, glasses were all they needed to see clearly. That changed with a glaucoma diagnosis at age 11. The pressure building behind their eyes began steali

Nearly two centuries after its invention, braille remains one of the most important tools for literacy, independence, and opportunity that people who are blind or have low vision can access. Yet many sighted people know almost nothing about how it works,

Three years ago, Serenity's life changed overnight. She woke up on the morning of her high school graduation with blurry vision. After a week of waiting, she went to the eye doctor who found the pressure in her eyes to be dangerously high. She was sent to