Discovering Vision Therapy Blog

From Struggling Reader to Confident Executive: How Vision Therapy Transformed Deb’s Life

For as back as she can remember, Deb Holtan had always struggled with reading. “It bothered my eyes, and I would get headaches. I was slow at it and had really poor comprehension of what I read.” Her challenges were so serious that she repeated fourth grade. 

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Topics: Success Stories

What was the Real Reason Rosie had Trouble Understanding What She Read?

Rosie, an eighth grader, had always been a hardworking student. But as she got older, schoolwork got more difficult – and the main issue seemed to be reading.

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Topics: Success Stories

From Barely Reading to Class Valedictorian: How Vision Therapy Changed Ethan’s Life

As a child, Ethan was curious, warmhearted, and obviously bright. But when it came to reading, he struggled. And though he excelled in areas like math, science and listening comprehension, Ethan remembers that by third grade he could “barely read or spell.”

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Topics: Success Stories

Reading Specialist Discovers Why Her Child was Struggling in School

There’s a reason why functional vision problems are called “the hidden disability.” It’s because so many parents, physicians and educators aren’t aware of them. In this case, a reading specialist discovered her daughter had a vision problem, and the subsequent treatment was an eye-opening experience.

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Topics: Success Stories, Reading Problems

Why Did This High School Student’s Eyes Hurt So Much?

When Mary Stern was a high school sophomore, her vision problems became overwhelming.

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Topics: Success Stories

How Vision Therapy Turned Nancy’s Life Around Following a Stroke

Nancy Kaplan was in the hospital recovering from endocarditis, a heart infection, when she suffered a stroke.

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Topics: Success Stories

Keira’s Trouble Focusing in School Turned Out to be a Functional Vision Problem

While on a car ride, seven-year-old Keira Halliday tried to read a stop sign. “It’s blurry,” she said to her mother, Amy.

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Topics: Success Stories

Titus Didn’t Have ADHD After All

Ask any teacher -- it’s a lot to expect a young child to sit and be attentive in school, especially in preschool or kindergarten.  Kids are distracted. Kids want to play.  

But Titus was different.

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Topics: Success Stories, ADD - ADHD

Why it Took This Seventh Grader 3 Hours a Night to do Homework

Why does a gifted reader spend 3 hours a night struggling with homework?

And why was this same seventh grader suddenly unable to read anything more challenging than a comic book?

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Topics: Success Stories

Lucas’s Family Finds Vision Therapy is the Answer After Eight Years of Struggles

Kelly Gozdziewski will never forget the words spoken by her son, Lucas, after he received new prism glasses. Lucas had been putting the glasses on and then taking them off, when he stopped and looked at his mother.

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Topics: Success Stories