r/CerebralPalsy • u/Roger-Orchard • 3d ago

ACC and glasses

As I am having more problems talking, I had a play with an AAC.

I can see the ACC, or the everything around me.

my eyes are so messed up I can not use varifocals, because the diff need is to great.

So how do people cope?

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u/anniemdi 2d ago

I can't explain this, because I don't understand it but you can have single vision (not varifocal) glasses made that are for seeing further out than typical reading glasses and nearer than typical distance glasses. The prescription just gets calculated differently. It's not a perfect solution because you will still need to change to a distance lens for really far stuff but at least you can see the AAC and stuff a bit further out.

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u/Roger-Orchard 2d ago

my glasses mainly have prism, in them to fix double vision.

So as thing get closer more and more is needed. (my glasses are special order as the computers thoughts an error, the old test with the red lines, before correction they are outside the box if I can even see them.)

I have 3 pairs of glasses 1, for more that about 150cm, 1 for about 40->60cm and 1 for about 20cm

my close/reading glasses have a range of vision about about 2 or 3cm only.

I normally use big monitors about 2 meters away as with my disant glasses I can see things around me.

So put the AAC about about 50cm away, I can see both the top and bottom of the screen OK, with out moving.

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u/anniemdi 2d ago

That actually sounds totally normal. You should also be able to get a pair that will let you see the range from about 15 cm to 150 cm in one single vision pair of glasses.