VISION THERAPY

Most eye control is a subconscious process, but vision therapy makes it a conscious process, in order to gain control and to train the system to work more efficiently. Ultimately these skills will again become subconscious process, but will maintain the greater efficiency that has been learnt throughout the program. Vision Therapy is essentially a program of activities prescribed by a Behavioural Optometrist, conducted and managed by an accredited Vision Therapist with the aim of improving the function of the visual system.

The visual system is made up of many aspects that need to work together efficiently to produce good vision. To determine which aspect/s of the visual system are not functioning efficiently, we use information provided from a Behavioural Optometry assessment and a Visual Perception Test. These results are then used by our Vision Therapist to create individual programs for each patient. 

The areas we examine in the Visual Perception test include:

• Visual Spatial Skills - The ability to understand and use direction.
• Visual Motor Integration - Visual control over a pencil, e.g. the ability to write or draw accurately.
• Visual Analysis Skills - The ability to see the detailed parts of the whole view.
• Visual Memory - The ability to recall what we have seen, e.g. sight words.
• Visual Sequential Memory - The memory of groups/sequences of letters, i.e. remembering words as a group of letters.
• Auditory Analysis Skills - Identifying the sounds that make up the word, breaking words down to syllables.

The desired outcome after completing Vision Therapy varies for each patient, but the main aim is to enhance the overall performance of the patients’ vision and in turn improve learning, reading, coordination and concentration.