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- From: garritano@UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Tom Garritano)
- Newsgroups: misc.handicap
- Subject: Need vision help for my father
- Summary: My father's legally blind, wants a powerful magnifier to read
- Keywords: blind, vision, reading
- Message-ID: <26404@handicap.news>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:34:28 GMT
- Sender: news@bunker.shel.isc-br.com
- Reply-To: garritano@UTKUX.UTCC.UTK.EDU (Tom Garritano)
- Organization: University of Tennessee
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- Index Number: 26404
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- My father is legally blind due to diabetes-induced macular
- degeneration, and until recently he had been using a small,
- hand-held magnifier (w/ light) to read the newspaper.
- Unfortunately, this magnifier is no longer sufficient, so he is
- looking for something more powerful.
-
- Could any of you please help direct me to either a specific product
- that you recommend, or else to a helpful, reliable dealer of such
- products? He is 81 and has no computer, so what is probably
- required is a very powerful magnifier with a strong light
- attached. Thank you very much for any references. I don't often
- get on UseNet or misc.handicap, so please respond by e-mail to
- GARRITAN@UTKVX.UTK.EDU.
-
- Tom Garritano
- University of Tennessee
- garritan@utkvx.utk.edu
-