Project Magnify is modeled after a successful study sponsored by Vanderbilt University in Tennessee: Providing Access to the Visual Environment (PAVE). PAVE provides comprehensive low vision services to school aged children throughout the state of Tennessee. The services provided by PAVE include clinical low vision evaluations and instruction in the use of the low vision aids. When PAVE was initiated, Corn, Wall and Bell researched the reading rates of students with low vision reading with optical aids to the reading rates of non-visually impaired students. The study showed that while students with visual impairments continue to lag behind their peers in reading rates optical aids significantly reduce the disparity (1999). Our study is designed to replicate a portion of this pioneer study and expand upon it by comparing the two dominant methods of helping visually impaired students improve their reading skills: large print versus optical aids.