Towards identifying gaps in employment integration of people living with vision impairment: A scoping review.

Background: The high rate of unemployment among individuals with vision impairment remains a pressing issue, even with the implementation of disability laws and coordinated effort to foster inclusive workplace. Employment integration challenges persist for people with vision impairment due to inaccessible job markets and workplaces.

Objective: To create new knowledge from previous studies related to employment among people with vision impairment and to understand what has been explored and identify the gaps in employment integration.

Considerations when asking about "disability" in disability inclusive research.

Purpose: There are several ways to include "disability" in research studies, which can be confusing or overwhelming for researchers, community members, and students. The aim of this paper is to share conceptualizations of disability and how to ask about "disability" in research studies. The paper provides a general introduction and brief analysis of the methodological approaches which can be used.

An international consensus on effective, inclusive, and career-spanning short-format training in the life sciences and beyond.

Science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) fields change rapidly and are increasingly interdisciplinary. Commonly, STEMM practitioners use short-format training (SFT) such as workshops and short courses for upskilling and reskilling, but unaddressed challenges limit SFT's effectiveness and inclusiveness. Education researchers, students in SFT courses, and organizations have called for research and strategies that can strengthen SFT in terms of effectiveness, inclusiveness, and accessibility across multiple dimensions.

Learning to see after early and extended blindness: A scoping review.

Purpose: If an individual has been blind since birth due to a treatable eye condition, ocular treatment is urgent. Even a brief period of visual deprivation can alter the development of the visual system. The goal of our structured scoping review was to understand how we might better support children with delayed access to ocular treatment for blinding conditions.

Seeing Beyond Anatomy: Quality of Life with Geographic Atrophy.

Quality of life (QoL) is a complex idea without a clear consensus definition. Generally speaking, QoL refers to several subjective measures of wellbeing that vary by individual and circumstance. QoL can decline noticeably as a disease progresses.

Online Self-Determination Toolkit for Youth With Disabilities: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Evaluation Study.

Background: Youth with disabilities encounter many challenges during their transition to adulthood including finding employment. Jobs are often inaccessible, and youth often face a lack of support, discriminatory attitudes, and sometimes low self-confidence. Therefore, it is critical to help youth enhance their self-determination skills to advocate for their needs in the workplace.

Family physician awareness of Charles Bonnet syndrome.

Background: Charles Bonnet syndrome is characterized by formed visual hallucinations in individuals with vision loss. It is reported that one in five older adults with vision loss suffer from Charles Bonnet syndrome and the suspected lack of awareness amongst family physicians may lead to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment.

Objective: To assess Canadian family physicians' awareness of Charles Bonnet syndrome.

Myopia prevalence in Canadian school children: a pilot study.

Purpose: A pilot study to determine the prevalence of myopia, proportion of uncorrected myopia and pertinent environmental factors among children in a suburban region in Canada.

Methods: Refraction with cycloplegia and ocular biometry were measured in children of two age groups. Myopia was considered at a spherical equivalent refraction (SER) ≤-0.

Worldwide Argus II implantation: recommendations to optimize patient outcomes.

Background: A position paper based on the collective experiences of Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System investigators to review strategies to optimize outcomes in patients with retinitis pigmentosa undergoing retinal prosthesis implantation.

Methods: Retinal surgeons, device programmers, and rehabilitation specialists from Europe, Canada, Middle East, and the United States were convened to the first international Argus II Investigator Meeting held in Ann Arbor, MI in March 2015. The recommendations from the collective experiences were collected.

Prevalence of visual hallucinations in a national low vision client population.

Purpose: To evaluate the prevalence of visual hallucinations (Charles Bonnet syndrome) in a national population undergoing vision rehabilitation.

Study Design: Cross-sectional survey.

Participants: Participants were 2565 new clients older than 40 years attending a Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) vision rehabilitation clinic.

The incidence of eye injuries in Canada.

Objective: To provide information concerning the incidence of eye injuries in Canada.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Participants: The study population consisted of all Canadians over the age of 18 years who agreed to participate in a telephone survey.

The cost of vision loss in Canada. 1. Methodology.

Objective: This paper outlines the methodology used to estimate the cost of vision loss in Canada. The results of this study will be presented in a second paper.

Design: The cost of vision loss (VL) in Canada was estimated using a prevalence-based approach.

Low vision service models in Alberta: innovation, collaboration, and future opportunities.

As Alberta's population ages over the next 20 years, the number of older adults experiencing age-related blindness or vision loss is likely to at least double. To prevent a crisis in low vision service provision, we need to build upon, and extend, existing partnerships between the CNIB and ophthalmologists, optometrists, government policy makers, and other service providers. Future service models for low vision rehabilitation should also emphasize interventions such as counselling and peer support that enhance quality of life.

Perspectives on low vision service in Canada: a pilot study.

Background: A review of the literature and current practice patterns for vision rehabilitation care in Canada provide a basis for this pilot study, which was undertaken to explore related issues from the perspectives of older adults and low vision service providers. The pilot study was overseen by a number of collaborators whose names are listed at the end of this paper.

Methods: Thirty people aged 60 years or older who had vision impairments and were clients of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind were surveyed by telephone.