Vision Therapy for learning difficulties and eye conditions - Vision Therapy / Behavioural Optometry

Who can benefit from Vision Therapy?

Adults and Children can benefit from Vision Therapy. Do you or your child have any of the following difficulties / vision problems / eye conditions?:

Learning difficulty
Reading difficulty
Writing difficulty
Maths difficulty
Computer vision syndrome
Co-ordination problems
Clumsy, spilling, tripping, bumping
Dyspraxia
Development Co-ordination Disorder (DCD)
Dyslexia
Hyperactivity
Attention Deficit (ADHD) (ADD)
Aspergers Syndrome
Autism
Visual stress
Lazy Eye
Amblyopia
Eye Turn
Strabismus
Squint

What is Vision Therapy?

Optometric Vision therapy is a structured program of activities that allow an individual to gain a better insight into the workings of his own visual system. Vision Therapy employs simple activities in order to promote heightened awareness, and more appropriate response to, existing feedback mechanisms to the visual system. This allows a person to monitor the quality of his own visual performance.

Feedback and awareness are used to develop and control visual performance and integrate vision more efficiently with other sensory information, in order to expand and refine visual space world. When a person achieves a closer match between his personal understanding of space and what is actually 'out there' he will be in a position to use vision more efficiently to direct appropriate and effective action, be it physical or mental.

Visual development continues by a process of comparison and matching of visual input with spatial information from other sensory systems, and it is this ability to match and compare information between sensory and motor processes that yields fine coordination of both visual and motor function. Therefore, limitations or mismatches within one sense or motor process will alter experience and effect how information can be matched resulting in imbalances or inaccuracies within all systems. As time goes on these mismatches remain within the system warping further development and affecting all future judgements. Anomalies of visual development are treated by altering perceptual and motor relationships affecting time and space judgements.

Here are examples of how Vision Therapy can develop your vision:

Activities that emphasis good body organisation (establishing a solid reference point for understanding of surrounding space) and enhance awareness of proprioceptive feedback (so that it may be more useful to the visual system)
Activities to build in freedom between vision and balance and posture mechanisms
Visualisation and manipulation of body and visual spatial schemes
Activities to match size and space perception in the two visual channels
Activities to enhance peripheral processing for good feedback to vergence eye movements
Oculo-motor skills
Binocular skills
Vergence facility training
Visual perceptual skills

When visual skills become more automatic maximum attention may be directed at work content, rather that on the act of concentration. This is how Vision Therapy can help. Vision Therapy develop your vision to allow you to use your full potential with ease.