Vision therapy is a sequence of neurosensory and neuromuscular activities individually prescribed to develop, rehabilitate, and enhance visual skills and processing. It is an individualized treatment program designed to improve overall visual function and performance. The use of lenses, prisms, filters, occluders, specialized instruments, and computer programs is an integral part of vision therapy. After a comprehensive evaluation, a therapy program is designed to meet the needs of each individual patient. The therapy program involves supervised activities done in the office supplemented with at-home activities.
Benefits of Vision Therapy
Common visual conditions improved with vision therapy include:
- Binocular (eye teaming) vision disorders
- Lazy eye (Amblyopia)
- Accommodative (focusing) disorders
- Eye tracking skills
- Strabismus (misalignment of the eyes)
- Visual information processing disorders
- Visual-motor integration delays
- Visual rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury
- Post-concussion syndromes
Scientific research has proven vision therapy to be the best treatment option for eye teaming problems, such as convergence insufficiency.
80% of what a child learns is obtained through vision. Therefore we know that accurate visual skills are important for optimal learning performance. It can be very difficult to comprehend what we’re reading if the print looks this:
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