We keep an eye on new computer games designed to help treat patients with lazy eye. We’ve seen a lot of attempts, but none have aligned with a true developmental optometry approach to amblyopia - until now.

Thirteen-year-old Chalen didn’t think she had a vision problem, despite having a severe case of strabismus. Six months of vision therapy later, she discovered not only how debilitating her eye turn had been, but also how much therapy helped.

One in four children experience vision problems that are often misdiagnosed as other common learning difficulties. Discover why these issues are referred to as “the hidden disability,” and parents and educators know so little about them.

Six-year-old Joel Derrick always loved school. But when his class began reading words, school suddenly became a struggle. He and his family would soon discover that his academic problems didn’t come from a learning problem, but a vision problem. (This post includes a video interview with Joel’s mother, Lisa.)

How can vision therapy potentially save an elderly person’s life or prevent injury? A recent study showed that older people with strabismus are about 27 percent more likely to be injured by a fall. The good news is that even for older patients, vision therapy can help.

Researchers have discovered a way to allow the adult brain to rewire itself and form new connections, possibly paving the way for new amblyopia treatments. The study plays off the same core idea as vision therapy: The brain can adapt to stimuli and make new neural connections.

We stumbled across an article regarding strabismus surgery that was so bizarre and riddled with misinformation, it’s hard to figure out where to begin.  Yet it serves as a perfect example of how misunderstood strabismus and other functional vision problems can be.

This is an essay written by Ben Westerman, a graduate of The Vision Therapy Center. Read this and you’ll really understand what it’s like to have a functional vision problem. Please, share this with your friends.  Congratulations to Ben on an amazing achievement!

We’ve written quite a bit about amblyopia, or lazy eye, over the last several years. In the course of blogging repeatedly on the topic, we’ve created some exceptional posts that have generated a lot of traffic. Here are our top 10 posts in terms of website views and social media shares.

Every parent fears a report card filled with bad grades.  It’s why we push our kids to study harder, work longer, and put in a ton of effort to improve their scores. So why don’t we reciprocate and make sure functional vision problems aren’t the source of bad grades?