Dr. Whitaker began working with low vision patients in 1985. She is a graduate of Ursinus College and Pennsylvannia College of Optometry. She also trained at the William Feinbloom Center for Visual Rehabitation at the Eye Institute in Philadelphia where she earned a clinical excellence award. For eight years she has helped patients in the Pottstown area with low vision. If your vision is not adequate enough to allow you to do the things you desire, you may have low vision.
Low vision is the result of disease, injury, or an anomaly of the visual system.
Common causes of low vision in adults are age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, stroke, and diabetic retinopathy. Other causes include, but are not limited to, retinitis pigmentosa and albinism. A person with low vision is one who has a visual acuity or visual field impairment which cannot be made better medically or corrected by coventional means and feels this impairment has a negative effect on his or her daily activities. A person who is not blind and yet cannot see as well as the average person is referred to as partially sighted. Not all eye doctors work with patients in need of low vision rehabilitation.