The National Eye Institute (NEI) has declared that May is Healthy Vision Month. Like many of these special months, the point is not to strive for healthy vision only during the month of May, but on an annual basis. That’s why the NEI offers up five smart ideas to keep your eyes healthy all year long - and we’ve added an extra bonus tip to help avoid Computer Vision Syndrome!
Topics: News
The Vision Therapy Center is focused on improving the functional vision of our patients. Over the last few months, we’ve also been engaged in improving the functionality of the center itself, and we’d like to share some photos of the progress.
Topics: The Vision Therapy Center
We’ve posted many times about functional vision problems, but it occurred to us that we haven’t put together a definitive post of the main problems and their symptoms. Let’s take an in-depth look, and also explain why they’re not detected by typical vision screenings.
Topics: Functional Vision, Functional Vision Problems, Convergence Insufficiency, Visual System
Summer is just around the corner (or at least that’s the rumor here in Wisconsin). If you have a child who is a struggling student, the break from school will be welcome – but it shouldn’t be squandered. Use the summer months to schedule a Functional Vision Test. It just might reveal why your child is struggling in school.
Topics: Learning-Related Vision Problems, Functional Vision, Functional Vision Test
The following success story comes to us from Emily Baxter, who received vision therapy and syntonics treatment to help her recover from brain-related vision problems.
Vision therapy took me from being uncomfortable most of the day to being comfortable for most of the day doing many life activities I was not able to do before.
Topics: Success Stories, Vision Therapy, Syntonics
We should be getting used to this by now, but yet another research paper has ignored the impact of vision therapy on the treatment of amblyopia, or lazy eye. In fact, some of the statements regarding the study made us, well, cringe.
Topics: Amblyopia (Lazy Eye)
In school, Jack Coakley would often look away from his desk and gaze out the window. His teachers thought he wasn’t paying attention. It wasn’t until he visited The Vision Therapy Center that his parents and teachers realized this apparent lack of attention was really a functional vision problem.
Topics: Success Stories, Vision and Learning, Learning-Related Vision Problems, Vision Therapy
In this amazing video, two optometrists show teachers what students who have a functional vision problem experience in school. It’s an eye-opening experience for these educators, who now understand why we refer to vision issues as the “hidden learning disability.”
Topics: Learning-Related Vision Problems, Functional Vision Problems
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.
Topics: Success Stories, Vision Therapy