Publications by authors named "Lisa Lorraine Dillon"
Article Synopsis
- - The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in Australia aims to improve the lives of individuals with vision-related disabilities, but it faces ongoing challenges in its processes and outcomes regarding efficiency and equity.
- - A study involving 22 interviews reveals that while the NDIS has allowed for greater choice and empowerment among participants, issues like workforce shortages, complex processes, and insufficient competition still hinder its effectiveness.
- - The research highlights the need for further improvements in the NDIS to ensure better long-term support and sustainability for individuals with vision disabilities, despite some progress made in participant control and advocacy.
Despite orientation and mobility (O&M) being a significant factor determining quality of life of people with low vision or blindness, there are no gold standard measures or agreement on how to measure O&M performance. In the first part of this systematic review, an inventory of O&M outcome measures used by recent studies to assess the performance of orientation and/or mobility of adults with vision impairment (low vision and blindness) is presented. A wide variety of O&M outcome measures have been implemented in different fields of study, such as epidemiologic research and interventional studies evaluating training, assistive technology, vision rehabilitation and vision restoration.
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