Optometric Vision Therapy is an area of optometric care that focuses on developing, improving, and enhancing an individual’s visual performance. It is an individualized treatment program prescribed by a doctor of optometry to treat various visual deficits that affect all areas of life, such as learning, sports, and job performance. If you experience visual discomfort even with 20/20 vision you may benefit from vision therapy. Vision therapy can be effective but requires a commitment to bring about results.

Optometric Vision Therapy effectively treats & improves:

• Eye Movement
  • Difficulty maintaining fixation
  • Reduced tracking skills (pursuits & saccades)
  • Nystagmus (involuntary shaking of the eyes)
• Focusing
  • Reduced acuity (amblyopia/lazy eye)
  • Difficulty maintaining clear focus (accommodation)
  • Difficulty changing focus from near and far
• Binocularity (eye alignment)
  • Crossed eye/wandering eye (strabismus)
  • Convergence Insufficiency
  • Divergence Excess, Poor depth perception
• Visual-Motor Integration
  • Poor hand-eye coordination
  • Difficulty crossing midline
  • Poor balance
  • Clumsy behavior
  • Sloppy handwriting
  • Difficulty catching/hitting a ball
• Visual Information Processing
  • Poor memory
  • Difficulty finding objects in a busy environment
  • Letter/number reversals
  • Poor visualization abilities
  • Poor reading comprehension
  • Difficulty spelling