Personalized Vision Therapy for Lasting Success
Our customized vision therapy programs strengthen essential visual skills, helping children overcome challenges with reading, learning, and daily activities.
What Is Vision Therapy?
Vision therapy uses a combination of exercises and techniques paired with specialized equipment to create a therapy to address your child’s underlying challenges in the areas of eye teaming, focusing, and tracking.
How Does Vision Therapy Work?
Like many skills, visual skills are developed. Since they are developed, they can generally be improved through proper therapeutic techniques. In vision therapy, the optometrist prescribes visual tasks to be practiced under controlled conditions with the direction of one of our vision therapists. Repetition of these tasks enhances vision by coordinating and improving eye movement, focusing ability and helping proper eye-hand coordination develop as needed.
Individualized therapy
Each patient and their diagnosis is unique. Because of this, each course of treatment is developed specifically for each patient. Vision therapy uses a combination of exercises and techniques paired with specialized equipment to create a therapy to address your child’s underlying challenges in the areas eye teaming, focusing, and tracking. In most cases a patient meets with our vision therapists once per week. Length of the therapy program varies depending on diagnosis, severity, and home therapy completion.
Home Therapy
Home therapy completion is essential to success of vision therapy. Each week home therapy is assigned to help your child progress through his or her treatment program efficiently. Your child will work on these exercises between therapy sessions at home. This home therapy includes a computer software program that helps our vision therapy team track progress and provide supplemental activities for areas the patient is struggling with most.
Do You Know Your Vision Facts?
- One out of four children struggle with reading and learning because of undiagnosed child vision problems.
- It is estimated that over 60% of problem learners have undiagnosed vision problems.
- 80% of learning in the classroom is visual.
- The majority of the vision problems that interfere with reading and learning are very treatable.
- Seeing clearly (“20/20”) is just one of 15 visual skills critical to academic success.
How Do I Get Started?
Getting started with vision therapy begins with a comprehensive eye exam to assess your child’s visual skills and determine if therapy is the right solution. Schedule an appointment with our team today to take the first step toward improving your child’s vision and overall success in school and daily life.
Eye Health Examination
Before any vision therapy treatment is recommended; a comprehensive vision examination must be completed. This is done by your primary eye care doctor to determine if your eyes are healthy and/or in need of glasses. Contact us for a list of recommended providers near you if you do not currently have an eye care provider.
When you get the results of your eye examination have your doctor send a copy to our office. If the doctor says your child is 20/20 keep in mind clear vision (“20/20”) is only one of 15 visual skills necessary for academic success.
Binocular Vision Evaluation
Dr. Sis will complete a Binocular Vision Evaluation to determine how your child’s eyes work together, move, and change focus when reading and functioning in the classroom.
When necessary, Dr. Sis will let you know if additional testing is required beyond the Binocular Vision Evaluation.
Consultation
Dr. Sis will need to get input from all parents/guardians in order to ensure that all necessary information is taken into account in designing your child’s treatment plan. It is strongly recommended that both parents be present for this appointment. Dr. Sis will review a great deal of information and may ask questions of a sensitive nature, our experience has been that children are self-conscious about these discussions and it is best if they are not in the room at that time. The consultation takes approximately 1 to 1 1/2 hours.
Eye Teaming
Eye teaming (also known as binocular vision) is a visual skill that allows both eyes to work together in a precise and coordinated way.
Eye Focusing
Eye focusing is the ability to adjust and maintain clear vision at different distances, allowing for smooth transitions between near and far objects.
Eye Tracking
Eye tracking is the ability to control and coordinate eye movements smoothly and accurately, essential for reading, following moving objects, and maintaining visual attention.
Eye Turn
An eye turn, or strabismus, is a condition where one or both eyes are misaligned, causing them to point in different directions, which can impact depth perception and visual coordination.
Lazy Eye
Amblyopia, commonly referred to as lazy eye is a visual condition where one eye has reduced vision which is not correctable by wearing glasses or contact lenses.