Who Does Vision Therapy Benefit?

If your child is struggling in school or is not meeting their potential, they may benefit from a functional vision assessment. There are numerous visual deficiencies that can impact school performance including:

Poor eye movement skills: children who struggle to control their eye movements are often slow and inefficient readers. They may frequently skip words or lines, and sometimes prefer to use their finger to help keep their place. They may dislike reading, or have better comprehension for material presented orally than material that is read.

Poor eye teaming skills: efficient visual processing requires that both eyes work together as a team, aiming to the same point in space. When eye teaming skills are lacking visual confusion can occur, resulting in blur, headaches, doubling of words and slow/inefficient reading.

Poor eye focusing skills: our eyes work very much like a camera, allowing us to shift focus from near to far and vice versa. Children who struggle with eye focusing often have poor stamina in the classroom or with near tasks; they may complain of headaches and blurred vision.

Poor visual processing skills: The lack of ability to discriminate visual likenesses or differences can result in issues with learning to read and write; children who struggle with visual processing may frequently reverse letters or words, have poor memory for what is read or struggle to discriminate similar words.