Use Your Vision Better

During the free 30-minute consultation, we discuss your needs, goals, and the services you are already using. I encourage obtaining local in-person visual skills training whenever possible.  

My services might be right for you if:

• Local training to use your vision better isn't available.
• You struggle to use your vision after vision loss.
• You are motivated to participate in training and do the recommended daily homework assignments. 
• You have received visual skills training in the past and would like a refresher but cannot attend the in-person training.

If my services aren't a good match for you, I will refer you to other resources or services that might be a better fit.

Services include an initial evaluation and follow-up sessions based on your progress. The sessions follow a set process:

• A 30-minute free consultation to discuss your needs, goals, and your current eye care and low vision services
• Once we agree to work together, you will receive an email invitation to the HIPAA compliant, secure patient portal. You will need to: 

1. Complete the intake forms
2. Submit credit card or debit card for payment
3. Upload an updated eye exam to the patient portal. Eye exams need to be within the past year and reflect any significant change in vision. 

• I recommend having a vision buddy attend the appointments if you benefit from tech support or another pair of eyes and ears.
• Initial Evaluation is 90 minutes and includes:

1. Reviewing your eye exam and implications of the findings related to optimal vision use
2. Evaluating current vision use
3. Introducing components of the training process
4. Finding your good spots of vision
5. Assigning daily homework
6. List of recommended training materials

• Follow-up training sessions are 60 minutes and include:

1. Reviewing completed homework
2. Teaching specific skills 
3. Monitoring progress
4. Assigning daily follow-up homework
5. Applying learned skills to desired tasks such as reading

• After each session, you will receive a summary via encrypted, HIPAA-compliant email within 48 hours.

Learning to use your vision better is a process. Training outcomes are individualized and may include:

• Reading more easily and accurately
• Needing less magnification when reading or looking at details
• Seeing more by learning to focus visual attention further in the distance
• Improved ability to make sense of blurry images
• Greater benefit from magnifiers and visual adaptive technology.

If you don't demonstrate progress within two training sessions, I refer you to other resources or services. 

My qualifications include over 20 years of providing vision rehabilitation to a broad population of individuals with vision loss crossing the lifespan from children to older adults. 

I'm recognized as a subject-matter expert in low vision due to my active leadership in the field, including presenting, mentoring, and writing about leading-edge low vision topics. 

Additionally:

• I earned a master's degree in Visual Disabilities from Vanderbilt University (1999).
• I have been a certified low vision therapist (CLVT) through the Academy of Certification of Vision Rehabilitation and Education Professionals since 1999.

The initial Low Vision Navigation session is $125.00 for 90 minutes, including:

• a customized, low-vision resource list
• a summary with easy-to-follow next steps 

Additional one-hour appointments are available for $75.00 an hour.

I am an independent unaffiliated provider with unbiased recommendations on low devices and services.

If out-of-pocket costs are not an option for you, I take a limited number of sliding-scale clients. During the free 30-minute consultation, we can also discuss other options for you that might be a better fit. 

Use Your Vision Better is an educational service not covered by insurance. 

The online scheduling system offers my availability.

In addition to appointments during typical business hours (Mountain Standard Time), I offer some appointments on weekday evenings and Saturdays.

Payment information is obtained at the time of scheduling and submitted during service. 

Appointments can be canceled 48 hours in advance, without cancellation fees.

If you have to cancel an appointment less than 48 hours in advance, you can reschedule it once during a two-month window. Refunds are not issued.