Determining if your child is suffering from vision irregularities or LD (or both) is the first step in laying the groundwork for treatment that will help them throughout their lives.

Vision problems and LDs can have overlapping symptoms, namely in creating obstacles to your child’s learning.

https://www.sightmd.com/types-eye-conditions-long-island/pediatric-ophthalmology/learning-disabilities/

No scientific evidence supports the claims that the academic abilities of dyslexic or learning disabled children can be improved with treatment based on visual training, tracking exercises, or glasses with tinted or colored lenses.

https://www.henryford.com/services/eye/treatments/pediatric-services/vision-disabilities

About Pediatric (Children’s) Eye Exams or Vision Screenings https://www.children-special-needs.org/parenting/preschool/pediatric_eye_exams.html

What is functional vision?

Functional Vision involves 4 visual skills necessary for learning.

They are Tracking, Focusing, Eye Teaming, and Visual Processing

Children who struggle with functional vision problems often struggle with learning, sports, recreational activities, reading, homework, and even behavior.

http://visiontherapyathome.com/functional-vision/

Vision therapy for children: When glasses aren’t enough

Vision therapy is perhaps one of the most controversial topics in vision care.

Some eye doctors are strong advocates for vision therapy and testify to its benefits — especially for certain vision problems of children. But other eye doctors are not convinced of vision therapy’s effectiveness and do not recommend it.

https://www.allaboutvision.com/parents/vision_therapy.htm

What is Vision Therapy?

Vision Therapy is an individualized, supervised, treatment program designed to correct visual-motor and/or perceptual-cognitive deficiencies. Vision Therapy sessions include procedures designed to enhance the brain’s ability to control:

  • eye alignment,
  • eye tracking and eye teaming,
  • eye focusing abilities,
  • eye movements, and/or
  • visual processing.

https://www.optometrists.org/resources/vision_therapy_sample.html

Vision Therapy at Advanced Vision Therapy Center is an evidence and research-based approach to treating conditions affected by deficits in eye tracking, eye teaming and eye focusing. Conditions such as convergence insufficiency, accommodative dysfunction, amblyopia (lazy eye), intermittent strabismus (eye turn) and oculomotor dysfunction (poor tracking) respond extremely well to vision therapy. Vision therapy addresses sensory deficits within the visual system through neurological change. Vision therapy creates a more coordinated visual system at a subconscious level to create lifelong improvements without the need for repeated therapy or a maintenance program.

Vision therapy is a treatment method that develops, maintains and restores visual skills that are required to perform visual tasks during a typical day. These visual skills include:

  • Accommodation (eye focusing)
  • Binocular Vision (eye teaming)
  • Oculomotor Skills (eye tracking)
  • Visual Perception (extracting information from visually-presented material)
  • Visual Processing (quickly being able to ‘make sense’ of one’s visual environment)

https://www.advancedvisiontherapycenter.com/treatment/

What is Tested During a Binocular Vision Assessment?

Our team evaluates several aspects of visual function during a Binocular Vision Assessment using age-normed, standardized testing. Based on the results, our doctors will prescribe an individualized treatment plan. Skills tested include:

https://www.advancedvisiontherapycenter.com/assessments/binocular_vision/#Anchor_3