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 (i.e., eye movements, eye-hand coordination, visual processing skills, etc.). To learn more about learning-related vision problems, visit any of these web pages:
   
  • Vision Therapy for 20/20 Vision: Success Stories
  • Eyesight & Vision Problems: Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD/ADHD),
  • Eyesight & Vision Problems: Learning Disabilities (LDs),
  • Are learning-related vision issues holding your child back?
  • What Does a Vision-Related Learning Problem Look Like?
  • Curing learning-related vision problems
  • Overlooking our vision
  • Vision and learning
  • Curing learning-related vision problems | Dr. Vicky Vandervort 
     

• Poor Binocular Vision (eye-teaming) or Accommodation (eye-focusing) 
  
  Vision therapy helps individuals develop normal coordination and teamwork of the two eyes, as well as, accuracy and efficiency of the focusing system. 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 vision or accommodation, visit any of these web pages:
   
  • Adults and Children Gain Binocular Vision and 3D Depth Perception,
  • What is Convergence Insufficiency Disorder?
  • Not Autistic or Hyperactive. Just Seeing Double at Times
  • Vision Therapy for Convergence Insufficiency: Success Stories
  • Eye Teaming, Tracking, and Focusing: New Research Shows Reading Problems Linked to Treatable Vision Problems
    
    
    
     
• Strabismus (eye turns) and Amblyopia (lazy eye)
  
  Vision therapy offers an excellent and frequently preferable alternative to surgery for eye turns in many cases. The earlier the patient receives vision therapy the better, however, our office has successfully treated patients well past 21 years of age. To learn more about eye turns and lazy eye treatments, visit any of the following web pages:
  • What Is Strabismus (Crossed-Eyes)?
  • Strabismus Treatment with Vision Therapy
  • What Is Lazy Eye?
  • Amblyopia (lazy eye)
  • Sue Barry - Fixing My Gaze
     

• Stress-Induced Visual Difficulties
  
  21st-century lifestyles demand more from our vision than ever before. Children and adults constantly use their near vision at school, work, and at home. Computer vision syndrome is one of the fastest-growing health concerns in the workplace today and compounded with increased use of computers in school. Environmental stresses on the visual system (including excessive computer use or close work) can induce eyestrain, headaches, and/or visual difficulties which can be effectively treated with corrective lenses and/or vision therapy. To learn more about stress and vision, visit: 
   
  • Protecting Children’s Vision from Excessive Digital Device Use
  • How to guide patients in the use of digital devices
  • Altered vision from digital device use in children alarms ODs
  • HOW STRESS AFFECTS YOUR EYES
    
    
    
    
     
• Visual Rehabilitation for Special Populations/Brain Injury
  
  Vision can be compromised as a result of neurological disorders or trauma to the nervous system (such as traumatic brain injuries, including concussion, stroke, whiplash, developmental delays, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, etc.). Vision therapy can effectively rehabilitate the visual consequences of these conditions. To learn more about brain injuries and vision, visit: 
   
  • braininjuries.org
  • How a Stroke Impacts Vision
  • Down Syndrome and Vision
  • Vision Problems and Autism
  • How Does a Traumatic Brain Injury Cause Vision Problems?
  • Neuro-Optometric Vision Rehabilitation (Brain Injuries & Vision)
    
    
     
  • Visual problems following a brain injury or neurological condition
    
    
    
     
• Sports Vision Enhancement
  
  Strong visual skills are critical to sports success. Not much happens in sports until your eyes instruct your hands, feet, and body 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 learn more about sports vision enhancement via vision therapy, visit: 
   
  • Vision and Sports Performance
  • Sports Vision Enhancement