Self-Care Skills for Young Adults who are Visually Impaired

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Prepare your young adult for life after high school by teaching life lessons such as cooking, financial savviness, clothing care, organization, and time management. Building upon the skills they have mastered and preparing them for their future will help them find success in the skills to be as independent as possible as a young adult.

Here families will find recourses that focus on preparing teens for life after high school. It offers guidance on essential life skills such as cooking, financial management, clothing care, organization, and time management. The section also covers topics like personal grooming, understanding one’s own body for safety, and the options available for low vision driving. For a comprehensive understanding of these self-care practices, you can read the full articles below.

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Choosing Clothes and Keeping Them Organized

This content is also available in: Español (Spanish)Organization Is Essential Your child will have an easier time getting dressed and looking put together if their clothes are organized consistently. You might begin by working with your child to devise ways that they can keep their clothes in order. Choosing Clothes and Dressing Independently As your […]

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Helping Your Teen with Blindness or Low Vision Look Good

This content is also available in: Español (Spanish)Many children become concerned about their appearance as they approach their teenage years. Once they’re teenagers, they may be even more conscious of their appearance and want their hair, clothes, and shoes to be just right. Although teenagers with blindness or low vision may not be able to […]

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Knowledge is Power for Children with Blindness or Low Vision:

This content is also available in: Español (Spanish)How Knowing Your Own Body Keeps You Safe Incidental Learning of Everyday Concepts Sighted kids learn by watching. They see others do daily tasks (Turnbull et al., 2013). Most learning, over 80%, comes from what they see (Turnbull et al., 2013). They learn many things just by looking. […]

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Makeup Application for Your Blind or Low Vision Daughter

This content is also available in: Español (Spanish)Makeup, a Rite of Passage Depending on your own pre-teen or teen interests, you may have memories of an exciting rite of passage—being given a tube of lipstick, buying drugstore powdered blush, or even being taken to a department store for a makeup lesson before your first school […]

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Talking to Your Daughter About Menstruation

This content is also available in: Español (Spanish)When and how to talk to a preteen girl about her first menstrual cycle are questions most parents or caregivers struggle with. Although some families find this a difficult subject to discuss, it’s important to make sure your daughter is prepared for the physical and emotional changes she […]

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Is Low Vision Driving an Option?

This content is also available in: Español (Spanish)What Are Bioptics? Bioptics are specially designed eyeglasses The glasses contain carrier lenses in one’s regular distance prescription, which have been modified to “carry” a miniature telescope. Not everyone with low vision can use them. The telescope enables users to see objects in the distance by tilting their […]

Headed to Work as a Teen with Blindness or Low Vision

This content is also available in: Español (Spanish)If your child isn’t planning to go to college, they may want to work full- or part-time or get some vocational training after high school. When considering a specialized training program, it’s important to find out if the school or program has a job placement program for graduates […]