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Functional Vision Assessment Service

Location change

Dr. Luisa Mayer's Visual Function Clinic at Children's Hospital, Boston has relocatedDr. Mayer is now seeing patients at the new England Eye Institute (NEEI) Low Vision Clinic at Perkins School for the Blind, 175 North beacon Street, Watertown, MA 02472.

To make an appointment with Dr. Mayer at Perkins, please call 617-972-7296.

After scheduling the appointment for you child, the Perkins Low Vision Clinic scheduler will send you the forms for:

  • Insurance Referral
  • Permission to release medical information on your child
  • Directions for getting to the Perkins Center.

If Dr. Mayer has seen your child before, tell the scheduler that she/he is an old patient from her practice at Children's Hospital.

Thank you for patience.

Simulation of Visual Field Defects

Photograph of Boston Children's Hospital's Hunnewell Building.The visual field is the total area in which objects can be seen in peripheral vision while the eye is focused on a central point. See for yourself what it may be like to have a visual field defect.

                                  Simulator 1
                                  Simulator 2