Hope Highlights

Spectrios Institute for Low Vision, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, IL, is seeking a part time Optometrist to join our team. Spectrios Institute for Low Vision is a nationally recognized non-profit organization specializing in low vision rehabilitation. Our mission is to empower children and adults with vision loss to optimize their visual capabilities

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Director of Development to join our team, drive our fundraising initiatives and manage donor relations. As the Director of Development, you will play a crucial role in obtaining grant funds, securing major gift, and planned giving programs, and coordinating special events to support the life-changing programs and

When a patient comes to the House of Hope, they are faced with the opportunity to grow to address the challenges of vision loss. We ask them to grow their knowledge of technology, to learn new ways to approaching things and to change their mindset. This year has challenged our mission to do the same!

We have added a new Optometrist to our staff! Please join us in welcoming Katie Walker, OD. Katie is low vision residency trained and spent time working at the Lighthouse in Chicago. She graduated from Illinois College of Optometry and hails from Batavia! Her interest in low vision was sparked as early as the first

It is with heavy hearts we note the passing of a beloved member of the Spectrios family.  Grandma Martyl passed on June 28, 2021.  She was the creative genius behind the coloring books provided to students of our Seeing is Believing program.   Grandma Martyl’s legacy of love will live on through her coloring books and

Since 1986, the Wheaton Lions have been supporting the Spectrios mission. They have been by our side as we built our new house, actively participated at Seeing is Believing clinics, and were even there to help us recover when our basement flooded! “For the last 35 years we have supported Spectrios, and want to congratulate

20 years ago, what started as an impossible dream, to build a bigger yellow house was realized and ground was broken on the now Deicke House of Hope.  We needed to raise $2,000,000 to have this goal become a reality.  A 3-year fundraising plan was created and in May of 2000, the campaign kicked off

Have you ever wondered why it is the Spectios INSTITUTE for Low Vision?  Why is it an Institute?  In short, it is because we provide students of optometry and occupational therapy training in the field of low vision rehabilitation. We have trained and launched the careers of many low vision optometrists that have gone on