Hope for the Visually Impaired

Learn how Low Vision Therapy can help the visually impaired with training and special tools.
Host of The Wizard of Eyes, Dr. Robert Abel, welcomes guest Bo Smith to share his experience with helping the visually impaired by using low vision therapy.

Low vision is a general term that refers to a permanent functional vision loss that cannot be corrected by medication, surgery, or glasses.

If you have low vision, you may experience a wide array of diseases, field defects, and degrees of vision loss.

Some low vision-causing diseases such as macular degeneration, glaucoma, and diabetic retinopathy, may have even taken years to damage the eye.

Listen to learn more about this vision healing therapy.

Additional Info

  • Segment Number: 3
  • Audio File: wizard_of_eyes/1609we1c.mp3
  • Featured Speaker: Bo Smith
  • Guest Bio: Bo Smith graduated with a B.S. in Telecommunications. He has worked for 15 years in the television industry, producing, writing, hosting, shooting, and editing news, travel programs, magazine segments and other video productions.

    In early 2000 he started filling in as a Low Vision Tech at Crozier Chester Hospital.

    In 2003 Bo moved to Pittsburgh and helped out as a Low Vision Assistant at Pittsburgh Blindness and Visual Services.

    Then, in 2005, Bo moved back to the Philadelphia/Wilmington area as Manager/Coordinator for Astorino Vision Rehabilitation.


  • Length (mins): 10
  • Waiver Received: No
  • Host: Robert Abel, Jr., MD