Concept

Low Vision Readers enable those with significant vision impairments to read. This new technology overcomes the main factors which prevent individuals with low vision from reading - poor contrast and lighting and unrecognizable letters - by providing concentrated lighting, magnification, and prism correction. The combination of these elements permits those with low vision or vision impairment to read.

Who will benefit from Low Vision Readers? Persons with "low vision" are those who can not read with ordinary reading glasses or contact lenses and whose condition can not be corrected with surgery. Persons afflicted with macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, cataract, and other vision impairing or blinding eye diseases often have low vision.

Low Vision Readers were developed by Dr. Jeffrey Sonsino, founder of the Center for Sight Enhancement at the Vanderbilt Eye Institute, after careful study of hundreds of patients with low vision. The Center for Sight Enhancement is a special clinic dedicated to low vision rehabilitation, the only one of its kind in the region. Low vision rehabilitation is an approach which makes the best possible use of the healthy vision remaining in the eye.