Learn the clinical skills and business systems to build a low vision specialty you own—within the practice you've built, or as a business of your own.
Clinical Training & Practice Mentorship for Optometrists
Be the Doctor Patients Never Forget
0+ Years Training Optometrists
0+ SLVTI Grads—Trained Doctors
0 Continents Our Doctors Work On
0% Own their Low Vision Practices
The Opportunity
A Specialty Built Around Patients—Not Volume
You get an hour with every patient. When medical treatment reaches its limit, patients still want to read, recognize faces, and stay independent. Low vision care gives you the time to solve real problems—a cash-based, differentiated referral specialty that rewards exactly the kind of care you went into practice to give.
Your Path
Build Low Vision Around Your Goals
Whether you're an established early-to-mid optometrist or someone building low vision from the ground up, SLVTI creates a comprehensive foundation for lasting success.
01-Within an Existing Practice
Add the specialty to a practice you're already part of—starting one day a week, expanding from there.
02-As a Practice of Its Own
A lower-risk route into ownership—often within existing eye care space, without buying a full-scope practice.
7 SIMPLE Program Milestones
We Don't Simply Teach Low Vision. We Help You Build It
SLVTI's comprehensive program trains you across every dimension of a successful low vision practice, from clinical mastery to business systems and patient communication. Our graduates don't just learn— they launch.
The SLVTI Difference
Clinical Depth. A Practical Path to Private Practice
Doctors drawn to low vision have historically had two options: pursue a residency, or figure it out alone. SLVTI was built as the third path. The curriculum was designed by practicing optometrists, for practicing optometrists.
Real Patients
Clinical judgment developed through direct, in-person patient care.
True Doctor Consults
Focused attention and full participation throughout.
Built for Private Practice
A model designed around how private practices actually work.
Support Beyond Strategy
Mentorship and guidance that continue as you build.
Real Doctors. Real Impact.
“The training gave me the ability to help patients I previously wouldn’t have known how to serve. Just as importantly, I realized I didn’t have to figure everything out on my own.”
Auria Colleli Cortacans | Optometrist | Dublin, Ireland
An SLVTI-trained doctor
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Start With the Low Vision Profit Playbook
We've got a proven, easy-to-implement foundation to help you build a successful, rewarding, and profitable low vision practice. You have this.
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Dr. Robert Shuldiner
Founder, SLVTI
“More than helping patients see differently. Helping them live differently.”
Founder, Shuldiner Low Vision Training Institute · President, International Academy of Low Vision Specialists—The philosophy that has shaped a generation of low vision specialists.
Your Next Step—WITH Susan Ackerson
Let's Explore What Low Vision Could Look Like for You
Speak directly with Susan Ackerson, President of SLVTI, about your goals, your practice, and whether low vision could be a meaningful next step.
The first conversation is exploratory—not a commitment.