Center for the Partially Sighted

The Center for the Partially Sighted is an American non-profit organization with the goal of promoting independent living for people with visual impairments.

[1] The Center works with persons who have partial to profound vision loss as a result of macular degeneration, glaucoma, strokes, cataracts, complications of diabetes, retinitis pigmentosa, cortical visual impairment, retinopathy of prematurity, atrophy of the optic nerve, albinism, and eye injury.

One such grant established the George and Reva Graziado Institute for Low Vision Education, a subsidiary of the Center.

This Institute administers a Continuing Education Program, which provides Continuing Education Credits (CEU) on low-vision rehabilitation topics, and is approved for optometrists, psychologists, social workers, MFTs, nurses and other rehabilitation specialists.

The Institute also administers a Low Vision Internship and Residency Program, which provides fourth-year internships to fourth-year optometry students from the Southern California College of Optometry (located in Fullerton, California).