New technologies always produce unintended uses.  For smart phones, you can now add “babysitter” to the list.  From infants on up, parents are allowing children to use smart phones more and more – often impacting their functional vision in a negative way.  Here are some tips to help you avoid big problems down the line.

Even someone who writes about vision therapy on a regular basis can miss the symptoms – or lack thereof – of a functional vision problem.  This was the case of my son Sam, whom I’m proud to say is the latest of our vision therapy success stories.

The medical community has its opinions about how to treat a lazy eye.  But we think basketball actually holds the secret to helping us understand the proper way to treat amblyopia, otherwise known as lazy eye.

There he was again – another cross-eyed actor, cast specifically because he was cross-eyed.  It was yet another example of Hollywood ridiculing people without understanding the consequences of those receiving the abuse.

Time flies, especially when your child has daily vision therapy activities to perform.  My teenage son Sam recently began vision therapy, and it’s made me realize just how difficult it can be to schedule those daily activities.  I decided to compile some tips for keeping vision therapy on track.

A success story from Angela, a client of The Vision Therapy Center.  Her son Andrew suffered from a convergence insufficiency.  

Parents and children are quite familiar with the eye chart used by most schools for vision screenings.  It’s called the Snellen chart, and it’s given us the term “20/20” vision.

A report on the high rate of Myopia among Asian schoolchildren produced a surprising conclusion:  Researchers believe the cause may be too much time spent indoors.  Ultimately, we think it may be a consequence of pushing reading and writing before a child’s visual system is adequately developed.  

Lisa Livieri was at the end of her rope.  She was receiving daily calls about her son Brent’s behavior issues.  She was also frustrated as her son struggled in school.  In this latest Vision Therapy Success Story, she describes how vision therapy has helped Brent make a remarkable transformation.

Reading, writing and arithmetic.  They’re the foundation of our educational system, and the basis for what your child needs to succeed in school.  And Functional Vision Problems can affects them all.