When it comes to any health problem, it's the symptoms that facilitate resolution. Symptoms are like a road map, steering us toward effective solutions. Sometimes these symptoms are quite clear – they tell us with no uncertainty what is ailing. Other times our symptoms can be far more ambiguous. With functional vision problems, this kind of ambiguity is common -- its symptoms are routinely misinterpreted, leading to misdiagnosis.
Topics: Vision and Learning, Functional Vision, Double Vision, Functional Vision Problems, The Vision Therapy Center, Developmental Optometrist, Dr. Kellye Knueppel, Directionality, Visual Skills, Symptoms of Functional Vision Problems
This summer, 6,500 athletes from 165 countries came together in Los Angeles for the 2015 Special Olympics World Summer Games. As part of a team of five invited international volunteers, Dr. Kellye Knueppel worked aside hundreds of local optometrists and optometry students, performing over 2,000 vision assessments over the course of seven days.
Topics: Special Olympics, Functional Vision, Vision Therapy, Opening Eyes Program, Functional Vision Problems, The Vision Therapy Center, Developmental Optometrist, Dr. Kellye Knueppel
As parents, we want the best for our children. We want them to be safe, successful and happy. But for the parent of a child with an undiagnosed functional vision problem, these goals can be frustratingly elusive.
Topics: Functional Vision, Vision Therapy, Functional Vision Problems, The Vision Therapy Center, Developmental Optometrist, Dr. Kellye Knueppel
When we redesigned our website, we decided to devote the home page to describing “functional vision problems.” We think the addition of the word “functional” can help people distinguish the types of vision problems that exist, and open the door to understanding vision therapy.
Topics: Vision Therapy, Functional Vision Problems, The Vision Therapy Center, Dr. Kellye Knueppel
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
Applause goes out to the vision therapy community – optometrists, parents, patients – for rallying against the naysayers. Or in this case, one naysayer, who published an article recently in The Chronicle of Social Change that was long on bias, and short on facts. Fortunately, there were plenty in our camp to refute the article, and send a message that this type of irresponsible journalism will definitely be met with a response.
Topics: Vision Therapy, The Vision Therapy Center
As a student’s vision improves through vision therapy, they also need to improve other skills, particularly organization and visualization. It’s why The Vision Therapy Center will offer our first ever “Organizational Skills Workshop for Students.”
Topics: The Vision Therapy Center, Visual Skills
