Low Vision:
Below is a letter we received from a teacher for the visually impaired. It explains why the Adapt-a-Lap is an important low vision aid and how he uses it.
I want to personally thank you for sending me the Adapt-a-Lap. This sturdy and inexpensive tool is a personal source of amazement to my colleagues and I. I teach students who are visually impaired and the Adapt-a-Lap is an extremely useful low vision device. It enables my students to bring material up close for a more comfortable working position. When using the Adapt-a-lap most of my students can literally get their noses to the printed word, while maintaining good posture and therefore reducing muscular strain and fatigue.
In use with a prescription aid, the Adapt-a-lap assists my students with restricted visual fields when using the techniques of reading scanning, tracking and tracing. The product construction makes it possible for students to get close enough to the reading matter to accomplish near vision tasks and enjoy reading without blocking out helpful illumination or shadowing the reading material By tilting the board, illumination is adjustable to student's preference, and glare can be eliminated.
As I experiment with your innovation, I find it a most excellent multi-use low vision tool A few of my low vision clients have hand tremors, poor hand coordination and one has only the use of his right hand. The Adapt-a-lap stand holds reading material flat, providing a good surface for stand magnifiers, and freeing up ones other hand from having to hold the reading materials.
Thank you once again for sharing the Adapt-a-lap with us. It is an excellent product and I truly hope you will get the word out to other vision professionals and the people who will truly benefit froth such a fine aid.
- Low Vision:
Low vision Clinics and Colleges of Optometry both use and sell the Adapt-a-Lap. They find that it is the best book holder. It supports those heavy large type books. For the farsighted, it can support reading material beyond their arms reach. For others, it supports books anyplace on the body, thus leaving the hands free to hold a magnifier or a pen. Those who scan their reading and writing material into a TV or Computer for magnification use the Adapt-A-Lap as a lap desk while sitting in a comfortable chair, recliner or lying in bed.
