Reading Fun to Reading Nightmares
For many, first grade is the start of many years of fun and exciting discoveries; like playing sports or musical instruments, and learning to read. Reading for most children is
Read moreWould You Look at That! Fixation, Fixation, Fixation
Right now as you read these words your eyes are fixating at successive points along the screen. Visual fixation is the neuromuscular aiming of the eyes at a specific point in space. You can easily understand the need for fixation when you imagine...
Read moreConvergence Insufficiency: Sharpen Skills with Vision Therapy
Both convergence insufficiency and convergence inability are vision disorders that can be treated with vision therapy. Normally developed as a child begins to crawl, the convergence distance changed and encouraged development of the skill every...
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Reversal Frequency: Minding Your P’s and Q’s
While the dyslexic brain processes things differently, with early detection and treatment, significant progress can be made with a combination of vision therapy strategies and intervention. Beginning treatment as early as possible will help keep...
Read more“What Does This Have To Do With My Vision!?” Movement and Vision Therapy
In Vision Therapy we often hear the following question from patients or their loved ones: “What does this have to do with vision?” They are referring to physical activities like building core muscle tone and integrating primitive reflexes...
Read moreTest Scores Dip When Vision Disorders Rule
Undetected vision disorders can rob many students of their rightful test scores, as they fight to keep words on the page that jump and dissolve before their very eyes. Almost one in five students has an undetected vision disorder that makes...
Read moreAmblyopia and Age: It Is Never Too Late
While it is easier for a young child to benefit from such therapy, a patient and dedicated older child or adult can gain much from the process, bumping up vision to read more quickly and with fewer symptoms of eyestrain such as headaches and...
Read moreTwo Eyes Are Better Than One! The Importance of Binocular Vision
In the DreamWorks Movie Monsters Inc., Mike Wazowski is a lovable and laughable monster with one big eye. Unfortunately for Mike, in the real world he would never enjoy the capability of binocular vision. Interestingly, having two eyes isn’t...
Read moreI Can Read! A Vision Therapy Success Story
Brady wanted us to share his success story with everyone. After thanking Dr. Davis and the therapist, Brady put is simply “I can read!” At Dr. Todd Davis and Dr. Amy Carlyle, Developmental Optometry – Vision Therapy and Low Vision services...
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Adult Head Trauma
Do you see with your eyes? Or do you see with your brain? . . . When the brain suffers injury, either from trauma or stroke, the damage done to vision often takes three forms: visual field loss, diplopia (double vision), and/or visual balance...
Read moreWait! I Changed My Mind
It may seem that we only change our minds when making one decision for another, but in reality our minds are always changing, at least from a neurological point of view.
Read moreFamous Double Vision
Double vision affects many people. There are many causes of double vision, from developmental issues to brain injuries. No matter the cause, double vision can have mild to devastating effects
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