Low Vision Center at the Lois L. Deicke House for Visual Rehabilitation

The Carle Low Vision Center at the Lois L. Deicke House for Visual Rehabilitation is a place that helps clients adapt to vision loss while enhancing their remaining vision.

Services offered at the Center include:

Low Vision Evaluation - A specially trained low vision optometrist evaluates each client's current vision, and based on those findings, may prescribe sight-enhancing devices such as magnifiers, telescopes, or filters.

Occupational Therapy - Occupational Therapy helps clients perform activities of daily living. Clients can learn new ways to do things like taking a shower, getting dressed, managing a checkbook, cooking, doing housework, shopping and caring for pets. Therapists assess each client's needs and develop a plan to help them live and work with greater independence and safety.

Many clients have vision loss that cannot be treated with surgery or medicine. This program focuses on ways for individuals to compensate by adapting their environment. The Carle Low Vision Center is located in a low-vision adapted house adjacent to Carle Foundation Hospital. The Center demonstrates how the use of lighting, adaptive devices, color and contrast can make any room and its contents safer and more accessible to those with visual impairments. Clients can test, and see first-hand how a home can be adapted for low vision needs before they make a major purchase or undertake remodeling projects.

Medicare, Medicaid, your HMO or private insurer may reimburse the fees for many of low vision services when they are requested by a physician. Contact the center at (217)383-6033 for more information.

Many low vision adaptive devices are available at the Center. Call (217) 383-6033 for more information.

Carle Low Vision Center
507 North McCullough
Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217)383-6033
Fax: (217)326-2403

This program is funded in part or in full by charitable gifts made to the Carle Development Foundation. You can support this or similar programs by making a charitable gift to Carle through a variety of gift options.