What is Vision Therapy?
Vision therapy is an individualized treatment program designed to enhance the brain's ability to control visual skills and optimize visual processing.
Vision goes beyond 20/20 eyesight- A vision therapy evaluation assess four main areas of visual function that are necessary for clear, comfortable, and efficient vision. These include: eye teaming, eye focusing, eye movement, and visual perceptual processing.
Research has demonstrated that vision therapy can be an effective treatment option for
Ocular motility dysfunctions (eye movement disorders)
Strabismus (misalignment of the eyes)
Amblyopia (poorly developed vision/ “lazy eye”)
Binocular vision disorders (in-efficient eye teaming)
Accommodative disorders (eye focusing problems)
Visual information processing disorders
Visual problems from acquired brain injury
Vision and Learning
80% of learning in the classroom occurs through the visual system.
It is estimated that 1 in 10 children have a vision problem severe enough to affect learning in school.
School visual screenings typically will determine whether or not a child has 20/20 vision, but they often fail to identify if a child has deficient visual skills that are making it more difficult for them to gather and process what they are learning in school.
A vision therapy evaluation will help identify if your child has a visual problem that is interfering with learning
Common signs that a vision problem is interfering with your children ability to read and learn:
- Blurry or double vision when reading
- Headaches or eye strain after reading
- Complains of words/ numbers moving on the page
- Excessive head movement or a head tilt when reading
- Slow reading speed
- Avoids reading
- Rubs eyes often
- Skips lines and words often
- Re-reads same word and line often
- Difficulty copying from the board or many copying mistakes
- Frequent loss of place when reading
- Uses finger to keep place during reading and school work
- Poor reading comprehension
- Short attention span during academic work
- Holds school material very close
- Poor eye hand coordination
- Poor eye contact
- Confusion of right/ left
- Letter reversals
Learn more about learning and vision at http://visionandlearning.org
Vision goes beyond 20/20 eyesight- A vision therapy evaluation assess four main areas of visual function that are necessary for clear, comfortable, and efficient vision. These include: eye teaming, eye focusing, eye movement, and visual perceptual processing.
Research has demonstrated that vision therapy can be an effective treatment option for
Ocular motility dysfunctions (eye movement disorders)
Strabismus (misalignment of the eyes)
Amblyopia (poorly developed vision/ “lazy eye”)
Binocular vision disorders (in-efficient eye teaming)
Accommodative disorders (eye focusing problems)
Visual information processing disorders
Visual problems from acquired brain injury
Vision and Learning
80% of learning in the classroom occurs through the visual system.
It is estimated that 1 in 10 children have a vision problem severe enough to affect learning in school.
School visual screenings typically will determine whether or not a child has 20/20 vision, but they often fail to identify if a child has deficient visual skills that are making it more difficult for them to gather and process what they are learning in school.
A vision therapy evaluation will help identify if your child has a visual problem that is interfering with learning
Common signs that a vision problem is interfering with your children ability to read and learn:
- Blurry or double vision when reading
- Headaches or eye strain after reading
- Complains of words/ numbers moving on the page
- Excessive head movement or a head tilt when reading
- Slow reading speed
- Avoids reading
- Rubs eyes often
- Skips lines and words often
- Re-reads same word and line often
- Difficulty copying from the board or many copying mistakes
- Frequent loss of place when reading
- Uses finger to keep place during reading and school work
- Poor reading comprehension
- Short attention span during academic work
- Holds school material very close
- Poor eye hand coordination
- Poor eye contact
- Confusion of right/ left
- Letter reversals
Learn more about learning and vision at http://visionandlearning.org