Visual rehabilitation in India

Eccentric viewing is a strategy that helps people with central vision loss, mostly due to age-related macular degeneration, to read more easily and fluently. It involves the patient learning to look around a central scotoma in order to see detail. It relies on the patient locating a still healthy area of retina around the atrophic macula, and learning to fixate and then read with this new preferred retinal locus.

First, I describe a case of low vision where modified eccentric viewing was introduced as a means of helping visual rehabilitation and then a second case where optical low vision aids were helpful.