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.

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.

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. 

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.