Anne Lesley Corn is an American educator, author, researcher, and advocate for those withlow vision or blindness. Corn herself has low vision—she islegally blind—and her personal experience has informed and inspired her research and advocacy.^[1][2][3]

When Corn was young she adamantly refused to use awhite cane when walking, later explaining that she "felt comfortable with using combined visual and auditory methods".^[4]

Corn accepted a position at theUniversity of Texas in 1980. In 1992 she began teaching atVanderbilt University,^[1] where she currently holds the title ofprofessor emerita. While at Vanderbilt she instrumental in developing the Providing Access to the Visual Environment (PAVE) program, designed to assist children with low vision. PAVE, run by theVanderbilt Eye Institute and funded by theTennessee Department of Education, is agrant program providing services to children aged 3–21.^[5]

Most recently she has conducted research at theUniversity of Cincinnati's ophthalmology department.^[6]

In 2012, Corn was inducted into theTexas Women's Hall of Fame. She has served on the boards of multiple organizations, includingPrevent Blindness Texas. She lives in Austin, Texas.

• Corn, Anne Lesley; Koenig, Alan J. (1996).Foundations of Low Vision: Clinical and Functional Perspectives. New York:AFB Press.ISBN 9780891289418.OCLC 492909182.

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