My primary research interest is the assessment of vision in aging individuals. My current work involves investigating the visual, motor and cognitive factors that contribute to reading ability in people with early to intermediate age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
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Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center
The Center's research goal is to develop and apply new scientific knowledge and practical, cost-effective devices to understand and address better the real-world problems of blind, visually impaired, and deaf-blind consumers. The RERC has many ongoing R...
Reading, Vision Function and Disease Progression in Early to Intermediate AMD
Most prior research on reading in people with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has focused on those with advanced disease. The first goal of this project is to examine the visual, motor, and cognitive factors that contribute to reading performance in people with early to...
Assessment of Speechreading with Dual Sensory Loss: Visual and Hearing Impairments
The purpose of this research study is to test subjects who have various hearing and vision problems on their lipreading, visual and auditory skills in order to understand the relationships between lipreading and visual impairment. We then can explore training strategies to improve auditory and...
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Smith-Kettlewell
2318 Fillmore Street
San Francisco, CA,
Room #
418
Email:
lott@ski.org
Office Phone:
(415) 345-2121