This course provides an overview of the structure of the eye, how vision works, and terminology that will be necessary to understand medical aspects of blindness and low vision.

This course is available for CRC, ACVREP, and NBPCB credit.

Course Objectives:

1. Identify various structures of the eye.
2. Understand how light travels through the eye and brings about one’s vision.
3. Identify the different roles that the eye and brain play in the miraculous thing we call vision.

The following are recommended screen reader and browser combinations.

Mac: Voiceover with the latest version of Safari,

PC: JAWS or NVDA with Firefox

Note that currently, course quizzes are not functioning properly for Microsoft screen reader users with Chrome or Edge.

The course shows a start date, but this is simply the date the course was made available to the public. They are self-paced. So, there is not an end date. You can enroll at any time.

This course was developed by the National Research & Training Center on Blindness and Low Vision (NRTC) at Mississippi State University. We are the only national center funded to conduct research related to employment for people with blindness or low vision, and training and technical assistance for the federal Older Individuals who are Blind program. As a national center of excellence, we offer resources on a variety of topics for service providers, businesses, and persons with vision loss on our websites:

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