1College of Optometry, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2Southern California College of Optometry, Marshall B. Ketchum University, Fullerton, California
3Alphapointe, Kansas City, Missouri
4Department of Ophthalmology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
5Envision Research Institute, Wichita, Kansas
6Department of Ophthalmology, Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
7New England College of Optometry, Boston, Massachusetts
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Submitted: December 22, 2017
Accepted: May 7, 2018
Funding/Support: Envision Research Institute (to AKB).
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: None of the authors have reported a financial conflict of interest in connection with the work.
Author Contributions and Acknowledgments: Conceptualization: AKB, PY, AB, JDS, TS; Data Curation: AKB, PY, AB, NCR; Formal Analysis: AKB; Funding Acquisition: AKB; Investigation: AKB, PY, AB, NCR; Methodology: AKB; Project Administration: AKB, NCR; Resources: AKB, JDS, TS; Software: AKB; Supervision: AKB; Validation: AKB; Visualization: AKB; Writing – Original Draft: AKB, NCR; Writing – Review & Editing: PY, AB, JDS, TS, NCR. The authors thank Alisha Trivedi, Marsha Zaman, and Megan Rouse, who were student research assistants at the College of Optometry, Nova Southeastern University, and assisted with the administration of surveys to the patient participants. They also thank their wireless technology consultant, Andrew Jacobson, for his assistance with the selection of the hardware devices to conduct the telerehabilitation sessions, as well as Dr. Amy Nau for the initial idea and encouragement to study telerehabilitation for low vision.
