Blind Rehabilitation Services Functional Outcomes

contributions in training the participants and collecting data. Many questionnaires attempt to assess the quality of life of individuals who are visually impaired (that is, those who are blind or have low vision), but few apply to those who are undergoing visual rehabilitation and hence are difficult to adapt as an outcome measure (Massof & Rubin, 2001). For example, Stelmack, Stelmack, and Massof's (2002) study suggested that the majority of items on the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire were not amenable to testing the outcomes of vision rehabilitation, whereas Szlyk e