VisionServe Alliance and its members Establish Vision Rehabilitation Week – June 9-15, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Join Us to Celebrate And Commemorate Vision Rehabilitation Week – June 9-15. Help Spread The Word About Crucial Vision Rehabilitation Programs.
Nearly 20 million people in the US live with blindness, low vision, and visual impairment, which often creates significant challenges with everyday activities. Vision Rehabilitation can dramatically increase confidence, safety, independence, physical and mental health, and improved quality of life. Tragically, less than 5% of people who could benefit from these services actually receive them. Vision Rehabilitation Week seeks to change that!
“Vision Rehabilitation Week celebrates the life-changing benefits of Vision Rehabilitation services for people living with blindness and low vision,” said Lee Nasehi, President & CEO of VisionServe Alliance. The holiday also highlights Vision Rehabilitation as a vital component in the continuum of care, recognizes the skilled professionals working in the field, and celebrates a career working with people of all ages with blindness and low vision.
Did you know?
Many people living with blindness and low vision report declining health and increased disabilities. Some groups experience more than twice the number of days of poor mental health and more than double the rate of depression. Adults with vision loss are also at greater risk for diabetes, stroke, heart disease, and other chronic conditions.
Vision Rehabilitation helps adults continue the activities that give their lives meaning, improves their access medical and mental health services, and reduces isolation and depression. Vision Rehabilitation Week will let people know that training can start during the early stages of vision loss, after corrective measures (such as glasses and contacts) and medical interventions have been exhausted. Vision Rehabilitation can help those with vision loss due to genetic factors, and both common and rare eye diseases, including cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and refraction errors.
“Together, we can create a world where visual challenges do not hinder independence and living a rich and fulfilling life.” — Jason Eckert, COO VisionServe Alliance.
Learn more about Vision Rehabilitation Week and locate a vision rehabilitation agency in your area, and other vital resources. Access our Vision Rehabilitation Week Toolkit with content and images that make it easy to spread the word.
Special thanks to EMVI, our Vision Rehabilitation Week Sponsor. Learn more and download the app at EMVI.Ai
About VisionServe Alliance
VisionServe leads an alliance of 130+ member organizations that vastly improve the lives of people with blindness and low vision. VisionServe Alliance collaborates with leaders to enhance the health of the BVI field by maximizing engagement with life-changing vision rehabilitation training and services, addressing strategic issues impacting the field, cultivating leadership, enhancing management systems, sharing best practices, increased capacity-building and sustainability, informing public policy, developing groundbreaking data reports highlighting profound issues impacting people with blindness and vision loss, and more. VisionServe Alliance also leads the Aging and Vision Loss National Coalition (AVLNC), a consortium of leaders advocating for the needs of adults 65+ with blindness and low vision.
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