Low Vision Service
Suite 1010
Phone: (215) 928-3450
Fax: (215) 928-7234
Co-Directors: Susan E. Edmonds, O.D.; Scott A. Edmonds, O.D.
Clinic Hours: Monday through Friday 8:30 am — 4:30 pm
Wills Eye Hospital opened its Low Vision Service in 1982 to enhance
the quality of life for those people whose eyesight cannot be
improved through medical or surgical treatment. The Service offers
these patients the opportunity to make the best possible use of
their remaining vision through a comprehensive rehabilitative
process. The directors of the Service developed a systematic
approach to the management of ocular disease that leads to
permanent vision loss with a special emphasis on Age Related
Macular Degeneration. The program is known as the Edmonds
Rehabilitation System© (ERS) and provides a combination of special
optics and re-training of the visual system for "reverse scan"
reading. Once this reading process is learned, patients use this
process for everyday tasks and to maintain independence.
After the initial training is complete, patients with particular life
goals are introduced to the full range of magnifiers, telescopes, optical,
electronic, and computer aids to augment particular tasks such as
television viewing, personal accounting or personal mobility concerns.
The ERS process alone or in combination with specialty devices enables many patients to
resume their normal activities and regain mobility and independence.
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