VIDBE-Q Volume 65 Issue 3
Mehmet Kart, Doctoral Student
The Ohio State University,
Kart.5@osu.edu
Fairbairn, H. (2019). When you can't believe your eyes: Vision loss and personal
recovery. Charles C Thomas Pub Ltd.
"When You Can't Believe Your Eyes: Vision Loss and Personal Recovery"
was written by Hannah Fairbairn and published in 2019. Fairbairn taught personal
management and interpersonal skills at the Carrol Center for the Blind in
Massachusetts where she worked for eighteen years. After losing most of her
vision in her early thirties, she utilized her own experiences as a person who has a
visual impairment, as well as her experiences with other people with visual
impairments at the Carroll Center for the Blind, as a background for her book. In
this book, she focuses on the process of personal recovery after sight loss. Those
who lose their sight later in their lives and those who want to know how to assist
persons with vision loss later in life would be most interested in the content of this
book.
Book Review:
When You Can't Believe Your Eyes: Vision Loss and
Personal Recovery
