COVID-19 Without Vision

Dr. Giudice worked in collaboration with colleagues to publish a new peer reviewed journal article on COVID-19 and blindness. The work, entitled “COVID-19 and Visual Disability: Can’t Look and Now Don’t Touch”, builds on a popular medium piece Giudice wrote in the summer of 2020. The new piece was published in the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Journal and provides a scientific explanation for pandemic-related challenges blind and visually impaired (BVI) people experience. These challenges include spatial cognition, nonvisual information access, and environmental perception. The published piece also offers promising technical solutions for the above challenges.

 

Citation:

Rizzo, J.R., Beheshti, M., Fang, Y., Flanagan, S., & Giudice, N.A. (2021). COVID‐19 and Visual Disability: Can’t Look and Now Don’t Touch. Physical medicine & rehabilitation, 13(2021), 415-421. DOI: 10.1002/pmrj.12541