Estimates are that there will be 854,000 severely visually impaired veterans in the year 2005 and 890,000 in the year 2010. Statistics, based upon the 2000 census, suggest that it will be well into the next decade before the number of severely visually impaired veterans begins to decrease. Waiting time for admission to VA blind rehabilitation centers (BRCs) is often a year or more. Low vision services are an important aspect of blind rehabilitation, as 85% of veterans admitted to BRCs have useful remaining vision. In the private sector, low vision services are provided in outpatient settings. Yet, legally blind veterans are still encouraged, if not required, to attend regional inpatient programs to obtain therapy with low vision devices because a reimbursement model is not available for outpatient blind rehabilitation and few low vision outpatient clinics have rehabilitation professionals to provide this training. The VA system needs alternative service delivery options for veterans who are unable to participate in inpatient rehabilitation. Outpatient low vision programs should provide continuity of care with the regional BRC programs and insure local access to low vision care that is high quality, timely, and cost-effective. Currently, the VERA Reimbursement Model allocates $27,826 per blind rehabilitation admission. Outpatient low vision programs have the potential to substitute for inpatient low vision services and more costly inpatient rehabilitation programs may not be necessary for higher functioning veterans. The purpose of the proposed research is to measure the effectiveness of a low vision outpatient program for legally blind veterans with central vision loss from macular diseases that could be provided at local VA facilities.