Low Vision: From the Corner of Your Eye

It’s automatic: When we want to really see something we look straight at it. That’s natural. Our brains have been trained to use the part of our vision that’s best at picking out details: the center part.

With some types of vision loss, though, like macular degeneration, the center of our vision is affected first. We develop a blurry or blind spot in just the area of the eye we use most of all.

But even when our central vision is no longer dependable, there may be portions of our eye that still work just fine. Some people, with the help of professional training and practice, learn how to use those unaffected areas of the eye to do the job that their central vision used to do – to see more clearly far away and close up. Vision professionals call this skill Eccentric Viewing.

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