Vision Therapy (or Vision Training) is a vision program that we design for people to help remediate and enhance their visual abilities and functions. It consists of a sequence of eye exercises designed to help your eyes work more efficiently so that you can perform daily tasks such as reading and writing more efficiently.
Vision therapy is for the eyes what physical therapy is for the body.
Observe your child as they read a book. Do you notice them struggling to stay focused on a page or keep their place? Do they find it hard to finish their schoolwork on time? Do they even dislike reading?
One of the reasons might be poor visual skills.
Our visual system includes not only our eyes but also our visual pathway and brain. This means even if your child has excellent eyesight and may pass the 20/20 chart test, they can still have poor visual skills for reading and learning.
As your child reads, their eyes move along the page. These movements include:
Good eye teaming gives your child depth perception and helps them with eye-hand coordination for gross and fine motor activities.
Good eye focusing allows the eye muscles to move the lens to focus on a near object and then relax to see clearer far away.
Good eye tracking lets your child read comfortably at a good pace without skipping words or lines.
Vision and learning are so intimately related. In fact, 80% of what your child learns at school is through vision. This means that any undiagnosed problems with visual skills may hinder your child’s ability to reach full academic potential.
Children often do not know they have a vision problem, so it’s important to know the warning signs that your child may have poor visual skills.
Our exhaustive list of observable clues tells parents and teachers what to watch out for to help detect possible hidden vision problems which may affect learning.
Our comprehensive eye test will help us rule out refractive errors like short-sightedness, long-sightedness and astigmatism. We can then check if a functional vision problem is indeed affecting your child’s academic performance.
If our tests show that your child has a learning-related vision problem, we’ll tailor a treatment plan that may include special lenses and vision therapy exercises to help them use their visual system as efficiently as possible in an academic environment.
We’ll make each consultation fun and interactive for your child! Our vision therapy exercises will have the educational qualities that ensure your child improves at their own pace and develop confidence as well as clarity with their future.
It is important to note that a child struggling at school may have a specific learning disability, a learning-related vision problem, or both. If our tests do show that there is a learning disability that’s not related to vision, we can refer you to the appropriate healthcare professional.
