Why Vision Therapy?
Some visual conditions cannot be treated adequately with just glasses, contact lenses and/or patching, and are best resolved through a program of Vision Therapy.
20/20 sight does not mean that your visual skills are working efficiently.
Read more about the 20/20 Myth.
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Who can benefit from vision therapy?
Learning Related Vision Problems
Vision Therapy can help those individuals who lack the necessary visual skills for effective reading, writing, and learning (i.e., 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:
20-20 Eyesight and 20/20 Eye Screenings - Not Perfect for Learning and School
Students with Persistent Problems -The Visual Connection
Learning Related Vision Problems and Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD/ADHD), Dyslexia, and Learning Disabilities (LDs)
Eye Tracking Dysfunction
Individuals with eye tracking difficulties often have trouble keeping their place when they are reading. In many cases, that individual will be following the text with their head or nose and may still need to use their finger to give tactile feedback to their visual system of where their eyes should be looking. Alternatively, the individual may have been recommended to use a bookmark or a window cut out of paper to block surrounding text. Skipping words or lines, reading was as saw and saw as was are more common.
Binocular Coordination / Accommodative Disorders
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 (ie. reading, sports, depth perception, eye contact). Common binocular coordination disorder terms you may hear are Convergence Insufficiency (inability to maintain the looking near posture of your eyes within arms reach), Convergence Excess (over converging of your eyes when reading). Accommodative infacility and accommodative disorder can contribute to lag in transferring your focus from a close target to a near target and back. Such skills are important in school when copying material from the screens or when playing goal in hockey and having to look quickly from the area immediately in front of you to looking out to the opposing defenseman on the blue line.
These conditions can contribute to double vision or movement of print when reading or appearances of gaps/rivers in the text. All of these can occur in individuals with 20/20 eyesight.
Lazy eye such as Amblyopia and Strabismus (cross-eyed, wandering eye)
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. Often the earlier the patient receives Vision Therapy the better, however, our office successfully treats patients well past 21 years of age. In the cases of infants/toddlers, a different approach to initial management may be recommended with more intense vision therapy as they get older.
Recent scientific research has disproven the long held belief that children with lazy eye, or amblyopia, can’t be helped after age 7.
Sports Vision Visual Training
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!
We can measure and successfully improve eye-hand coordination, visual reaction time, peripheral vision, eye focusing, eye tracking and teaming, visualization skills, and more.
In your sport, how valuable would be increasing your reaction time even by one hundredth of a second? What competitive advantage could that give you?
Post Concussion / Traumatic Brain Injury
Visual symptoms are very frequent in those who have suffered a TBI or concussion. We work in collaboration with your vestibular therapist / physiotherapist / allied professional who is working to help you regain parts of your life back.
Just because you were not diagnosed with a concussion and your MRI came back clear doesn't mean you did are not suffering the visual dysfunctions most commonly seen post-concussion.