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Our Mission&To provide counseling, support, information and advocacy to families when there has been a diagnosis of cancer or other diseases that may impact vision.
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Institute for Families has published several books to assist children, families, friends and healthcare professionals to gain a better understanding and to cope with visual handicap conditions.

A $5 per book donation is suggested to cover our costs plus an additional $1 if ordering outside of the United States to cover postage. For any order of 25 or more, the cost is $1 per book plus shipping.
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  • My New Glasses, A Book for Parents and Children
     This publication was written as a tool to help children and their parents adjust to the idea and the reality of wearing glasses. Accompanied by full color photographs, My New Glasses begins with important technical considerations regarding the process of fitting glasses and then continues with representative stories from parents and children about their experiences. Parents of infants and toddlers, as well as school age children and teenagers tell us, in their own words, how glasses affected them and what strategies facilitated their adjustment.
  • My New Eye Patch, A Book for Parents and Children
     This book uses full color photographs and descriptions of experiences and feelings surrounding the necessity of wearing an eye patch. AVAILABLE IN SPANISH
 
  • My Fake Eye, The Story of My Prosthesis
    This book is a useful and comforting tool for the child and family who have had or will be having an eye enucleated. It clearly illustrates and provides a non-threatening explanation to help answer questions for the child and family members about the surgery and/or prosthesis.

    The presentation of a three-year-old's experience with enucleation and the subsequent fitting of the prosthesis is reassuring to both the child and the family. Brian and Zack, the two children portrayed in the book who have each had an eye enucleated, are delightful, charming youngsters. As we go on their journey from diagnosis to cosmetic success, it is easy for other children to identify with them and to be comforted by their experiences.

    Nearly 10,000 copies have been distributed to individuals, hospitals, and opthalmological centers throughout the United States and abroad. AVAILABLE IN SPANISH