Vision Therapy is an evidence-based, personalised program that enhances visual skills through fun exercises. It focuses on improving eye coordination, tracking, focusing, and depth perception. Here’s how we support both children and adults:
How We Help with Vision Therapy
Comprehensive Eye Examination
We start with a thorough eye exam to assess your eye health and how well your eyes work together. Our friendly optometrists check eye movements, focusing, and alignment to identify visual challenges that may affect tasks like reading, writing, or day-to-day activities.
Eye Teaming
Eye teaming is when both eyes work together to focus on an object and perceive depth. Poor eye teaming can make reading and concentration difficult.
- Convergence Insufficiency: Struggles with close-up tasks like reading, causing double vision and eye strain.
- Divergence Excess: Difficulty focusing on distant objects, causing blurry vision and challenges following moving objects.
Eye Focusing
Eye focusing refers to the adjustment in the eye muscles to see clearly at various distances (i.e. during reading).
- Accommodative Insufficiency: Difficulty focusing on close objects, causing eyestrain and blurry vision.
- Accommodative Excess: Focusing too easily on nearby objects, making distance vision blurry.
Eye Tracking
Tracking allows your eyes to smoothly follow text or objects without losing your place. Poor tracking can cause skipping lines or losing focus while reading.
Vision Therapy Exercises
We create a personalised program with exercises to help strengthen eye muscles, improve eye teaming, coordination and tracking. Advanced exercises develop our visual perceptual skills, which improve reading, writing, math and everyday tasks.
Follow-Up Appointments
Follow-up appointments for vision therapy are important to check progress and make any needed changes to the exercises. These appointments help us adjust exercises to make them less complicated at home, catch any setbacks and keep progress on track.
Who Can Benefit from Vision Therapy?
Vision Therapy can help people of all ages. Here’s who might benefit:
- Children:
- Difficulty with reading or schoolwork
- Complaints of eye strain or headaches during close-up tasks
- Struggles with eye-hand coordination or maintaining focus while reading
- Losing place while reading or skipping words
- Issues like Convergence Insufficiency or Accommodative Insufficiency
- Adults:
- Difficulty focusing for long periods, especially after screen time
- Eye strain, headaches, or blurry vision from computer or device use
- Trouble focusing on objects at different distances (e.g. reading or driving)
- Need for improved eye coordination or depth perception
Why Vision Therapy Matters for Learning and Daily Life
Vision plays a critical role in learning—80% of what kids learn comes from what they see. Undiagnosed visual problems can affect academic performance, reading, and behaviour. Vision Therapy is backed by strong evidence, and many patients experience significant improvements in their visual abilities, academic success, and daily activities.
Whether your child is struggling with schoolwork or you’re noticing visual discomfort, early intervention can make a world of difference. At Eyecare Kids, we work with you every step of the way to ensure your child gets the support they need for better visual skills and overall well-being. Book an appointment today with our caring optometrists and vision therapists to improve your child’s visual skills and support their learning.
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Online Vision Therapy
Busy schedule? Our Online Vision Therapy allows you to access personalised vision exercises from home with the in-person guidance of our Vision Therapist.
The program includes interactive exercises tailored to your visual needs. Whether working on eye coordination, focusing, or tracking, it’s a flexible and effective way to improve your skills at your own pace.
Online Vision Therapy can also be part of your ongoing treatment plan, reinforcing your progress between in-person appointments. With regular guidance and check-ins from our vision therapists, you’ll stay on track and continue to progress—even from the comfort of home.
Your Child’s Sight is Precious
Good vision is vital for your child’s development, both academically and in their everyday life. Don’t wait for the signs to show up – let our behavioural optometrists help you give your child the best chance at clear, efficient vision.