{"id":6132,"date":"2019-08-08T11:53:21","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T15:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/research\/laboratories\/laboratories\/laboratoire-de-recherche-sur-la-deficience-visuelle\/"},"modified":"2019-08-08T11:58:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T15:58:32","slug":"laboratoire-de-recherche-sur-la-deficience-visuelle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/research\/laboratories\/laboratories\/laboratoire-de-recherche-sur-la-deficience-visuelle\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision Impairment Research Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>Our work includes all aspects of low vision research, creating an interdisciplinary environment in which we can answer complex and multi-layered questions that are relevant to the rehabilitation of individuals with visual impairment. Specifically, there is a focus on co-morbidities, such as hearing impairment or cognitive impairment. The goal of including multiple impairments in our research is to be able to make our results as generalizable as possible to the life and daily challenges of persons with sensory loss, their care providers, and the service providers that work with them.<\/p>\n<h3>Key-words<\/h3>\n<p>Low vision, blindness, sight loss, sight impairment, deafblindness, hard of hearing, hearing loss, hearing impairment, assistive technology, assistive device, usability.<\/p>\n<h2>Axis and research theme<\/h2>\n<p><strong>AXIS 1 \u2013<\/strong> Sensory, Motor and Cognitive Functions and Activities<br \/>\n<strong>THEME 1 \u2013<\/strong> Functional Mechanisms<\/p>\n<h2>Research Team<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/member\/walter-wittich-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walter Wittich, Ph.D., FAAO CLVT<\/a><\/h3>\n<h2>Contact information<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Vision Impairment Research Laboratory<\/strong><br \/>\nSchool of Optometry<br \/>\nUniversit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al<br \/>\n3744, Jean-Brillant Street<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em;\">Room 260-7<br \/>\nMontr\u00e9al QC H3T 1P1<br \/>\n<\/span>C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville, Montr\u00e9al QC H3C 3J7<br \/>\nTwitter: @WalterWittich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description Our work includes all aspects of low vision research, creating an interdisciplinary environment in which we can answer complex and multi-layered questions that are relevant to the rehabilitation of individuals with visual impairment. Specifically, there is a focus on&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/research\/laboratories\/laboratories\/laboratoire-de-recherche-sur-la-deficience-visuelle\/\" class=\"read-more btn\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">about Vision Impairment Research Laboratory<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3634,"menu_order":19,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6132"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6135,"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6132\/revisions\/6135"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crir.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}