Discovering Vision Therapy Blog

Does Hollywood Make Being Cross-Eyed a Stigma?

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.

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Topics: Strabismus (Crossed Eyes)

Tips for Scheduling Your Child’s At-Home Vision Therapy Activities



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.

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Topics: Vision Therapy

Vision Therapy Helps Andrew Overcome His Convergence Insufficiency


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

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Topics: Success Stories, Learning-Related Vision Problems, Convergence Insufficiency, Success Stories - CI

How a Basic Eye Test Can Miss a Vision Problem


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.

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Topics: Functional Vision Test, Snellen Eye Chart

Could Pushing Children in School Have a Negative Effect on Visual Development?

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.  

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Topics: Functional Vision Problems, Visual System

Vision Therapy for Convergence Insufficiency Proves Highly Effective

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.

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Topics: Success Stories, Vision Therapy, Convergence Insufficiency, Success Stories - CI

How Functional Vision Problems Affect Reading, Writing and Arithmetic


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.

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Topics: Learning-Related Vision Problems, Functional Vision Problems

Vision Therapy Activity Helps with “Problems Focusing Eyes”

 

Focusing issues, or accommodation, is more than a case of “having the problem of focusing your eyes.”  As is many of the vision problems we encounter at The Vision Therapy Center, these are issues that affect the entire visual system.  In this video, we’ll focus on an activity that helps people overcome problems with their focusing system.

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Topics: Visual System, Focusing, Visual Skills

Tasha Writes About Her Own Vision Therapy Success


It's time for another vision therapy success story, but this one is a little different.  We typically interview moms and dads, either writing an article or posting a video.  But this one is from a student - Tasha Brenner. 

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Topics: Success Stories

Discovery of Daughter’s Lazy Eye a Surprise for Family



Why is it that so many kids with vision problems don’t get treatment? In cases of amblyopia, it’s often because the kids don’t even realize they have a vision problem.  For Maya’s family, the discovery that their daughter had ‘lazy eye’ was a huge surprise.

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Topics: Success Stories, Vision Therapy, Amblyopia (Lazy Eye), Success Stories - Amb