r/Blind • u/Tiny_Protection387 • 17h ago

Grandmother blind, needs atleast 12x magnification

I recently learned my grandmother is very low vision and she has Charles Bonnet syndrome. She is crazy high functioning in every way apart from eye sight.

I am getting ready to send her a care package and am wondering what a good, full magnifying glass for reading would be. She needs at LEAST 12x and wants a full page magnifying so she doesn’t get lost reading the lines. Anyone have a good brand or product they would recommend?

Also, is there a preferred app for audio books? She has a kindle currently but is transitioning to more audio.

I am open to other suggestions for someone who is learning to live with very limited eyesight. I am thinking about getting her magnifying glasses for each room so she has one handy, some more of those dot things, some velcro commando strips that help attach objects to things.

She can still do 300 piece puzzles, goes for walks around her apt complex, has an app on her phone that helps to magnify things while shopping. She has someone who has come to her house to place high vis things around her house. I think she also has Alexa.

Anyways, I really appreciate any insight into how I can support her from afar!

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u/ChipsAhoiMcCoy 14h ago

I’m gonna be completely honest, where I work, if a client uses more than three times magnification we usually try to steer them towards using a speech synthesizer. She might honestly want to try to consider acclimating to using a screen reader on her mobile device for daily life, and using OCR scanners when applicable. That level of magnification is very large.

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u/Tiny_Protection387 5h ago

Thanks, that’s very insightful!