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What is Vision Therapy? Vision Therapy is an individualized, supervised, treatment program designed to correct visual-motor and/or perceptual-cognitive deficiencies. Vision Therapy sessions include procedures designed to enhance the brain's ability to control:
Visual-motor skills and endurance are developed through the use of specialized computer and optical devices, including therapeutic lenses, prisms, and filters. During the final stages of therapy, the patient's newly acquired visual skills are reinforced and made automatic through repetition and by integration with motor and cognitive skills. Who Benefits from Vision Therapy? Children and adults with visual challenges, such as: Learning-Related Vision Problems Vision Therapy can help those individuals who lack the necessary visual skills for effective reading, writing, and learning (eye movement and focusing skills, convergence, eye-hand activity, visual memory skills, etc.). To learn more about learning-related vision problems, visit any of these web pages: Poor Binocular (2-eyed) Coordination Vision Therapy helps individuals develop normal coordination and teamwork of the two eyes (binocular vision). When the two eyes fail to work together as an effective team, performance in many areas can suffer (reading, sports, depth perception, eye contact, etc.). To learn more about binocular (two-eyed) vision, visit any of these web pages: Strabismus (Crossed Eyes, Eye Turns, etc.) and Vision Therapy programs offer much higher cure rates for turned eyes and/or lazy eye when compared to eye surgery, glasses, and/or patching, without therapy. The earlier the patient receives Vision Therapy the better, however, our office successfully treats patients well past 21 years of age. Recent scientific research has disproved the long held belief that children with lazy eye, or amblyopia, can’t be helped after age 7. To learn more about crossed eyes, eye turns, or lazy eye, visit any of these web pages: Stress-Induced Difficulties - Blurred Vision, Eyestrain, Headaches, Dizziness, etc. 21st Century life demands more from our vision than ever before. Many children and adults constantly use their near vision at school, work and home. Environmental stresses on the visual system (including excessive computer use or close work) can induce blurred vision, eyestrain, headaches, etc. To learn about Vision Therapy for these problems, see: Visual Rehabilitation for Special Needs - Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Stroke, Birth Injury, Brain Damage, Head Injury, Whiplash, Cerebral Palsy, MS, Etc. Vision can be compromised as a result of neurological disorders or trauma to the nervous system. Vision Therapy can effectively treat the visual consequences of brain trauma (including double vision). To learn more about visual rehabilitation with Vision Therapy, visit any of these web pages: Visual Rehabilitation for Special Needs - Developmental Delays, Visual Perceptual Visual-Motor Deficits, Attention Deficit Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders To learn more about Vision Therapy as it relates to developmental delays or disorders, visit any of these web pages: Sports Vision Improvement Strong visual skills are critical to sports success. Not much happens in sports until your eyes instruct your hands and body as to what to do! Accurate vision and athletic visual skills can be measured, developed, and enhanced through Vision Therapy. We can measure and successfully improve eye-hand coordination, visual reaction time, peripheral awareness, eye teaming, focusing, tracking, and visualization skills (to mention just a few). Vision Therapy can be the answer to many visual problems. Don't hesitate to contact our office with your questions. To read definitions of Vision Therapy by outside sources, see What is Vision Therapy? and/or Self-help Eye Exercises / Vision Therapy? To browse through hundreds of stories by parents, teachers, adults and children, go to a catalog of Vision Therapy Success Stories.
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