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What is Vision Therapy?
Behavioural Optometry
What is Vision Therapy? |
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Vision Therapy (also known as visual training) is an individualized program of activities which may involve the use of lenses, prisms, filters and various other equipment designed to provide the individual with a situation in which they may learn to improve their binocular vision and visual information processing skills. |
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It may be recommended to: |
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1. Treat existing visual problems such as eye teaming or alignment problems, amblyopia (lazy eye), eye-coordination problems, poorly sustained near focus, inefficient eye movement control, poorly developed eye-hand coordination & immature visual perceptual development. |
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2. Enhance the efficiency and comfort of visual function. |
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3. Help prevent some visual problems from developing. |
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4. Vision therapy is not used to strengthen eye muscles, but rather to improve the coordination and functioning of the visual system. |
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5. Many children who experience academic difficulties may have a visual dysfunction or inefficiency in the way their visual system is working in addition to their primary reading or learning problem. Vision therapy can assist or minimize some learning difficulties by reducing visual inefficiencies only where these are present. |
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Vision Therapy
helps to remediate
vision problems
Vision Problems
can affect
learning
Not all children
with learning difficulties
have significant
vision problems