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12/01/2025

Your child has been referred for a Behavioural Optometry assessment. It’s a new concept… so you conducted research. You may have encountered the term Pediatric Optometrist and wondered about the distinction… 👁️

A Behavioural Optometrist focuses on the impact of vision on daily functions such as reading, learning, and coordination. They provide vision therapy to address issues like eye tracking, focusing, and visual processing.

A Pediatric Optometrist specializes in children’s eye health, diagnosing and treating conditions like nearsightedness, farsightedness, and amblyopia.
While both work with children, Behavioural Optometrists emphasize functional vision and therapy, whereas Pediatric Optometrists prioritize general eye care and development in young patients.

29/12/2024

“My son is not reaching his full potential in school. The Educational Psychologist recommended he see you. He’s had an eye test and does not need glasses so I’m really not sure why we are booking the appointment”.
I’ve heard this and similar comments so often.
After an in depth assessment mom could see that this young man did not know how to point his eyes.
Solution?… Vision Therapy will teach him the Art & Science behind how to point his eyes… and to rewire his Eye-Brain Communication Network

22/12/2024

The two most important benefits of binocular vision are:
1. Depth Perception (Stereopsis): Binocular vision allows the brain to merge slightly different images from each eye, creating a three-dimensional view and enabling precise depth perception, essential for tasks like judging distances, catching objects, and navigating complex environments.
2. Single, Clear Vision: It provides the ability to fuse two images from both eyes into one clear and stable image, reducing visual confusion and improving clarity, which is crucial for tasks requiring focus and precision.

24/10/2024

Why does Behavioural Optometry consider Primitive Reflex Integration as the foundation of Vision Therapy?
Did you know that Tonic Labyrinthine Reflex, the Asymmetric Tonic Neck Reflex and the Spinal Gallant Reflex work together for…
1. head control and
2. eye movements - the ability to look, fixate and follow.
Just another reminder that Vision is so much more than Eyesight ❤️

19/10/2024

Here are three benefits of thumb tracking in vision therapy:

1. Improves Eye Tracking (Smooth Pursuits): Thumb tracking exercises help enhance the ability of the eyes to smoothly follow a moving object, which is essential for activities like reading, sports, and following moving objects in the environment without losing focus.
2. Enhances Eye-Hand Coordination: By following the movement of the thumb with their eyes, individuals improve the connection between visual input and hand movements. This boosts coordination, which is important for tasks such as writing, drawing, or catching a ball.
3. Strengthens Focus and Visual Attention: Tracking the thumb as it moves across different distances and directions trains the eyes to maintain focus on an object while adjusting for changes in position. This helps develop better sustained attention and focus, particularly for tasks that require precise visual control.

18/10/2024

Here are three benefits of using a balance board in vision therapy:

1. Enhances Visual-Motor Integration:
Using a balance board helps improve the coordination between visual input and physical movement. This strengthens the connection between the eyes and the body, aiding in activities that require precise hand-eye coordination, like sports, writing, or playing musical instruments.
2. Improves Spatial Awareness and Depth Perception:
Standing or performing exercises on a balance board requires the body to make constant adjustments, which challenges and sharpens spatial awareness and depth perception. This helps individuals better judge distances and navigate their environment.
3. Promotes Postural Stability and Visual Processing:
The balance board encourages postural control while the eyes focus on specific tasks or objects. It helps individuals maintain balance while engaging in visually demanding tasks, improving their overall visual processing and posture during daily activities.

17/10/2024

Here are three benefits of using a Brock string in vision therapy:

1. Improves Eye Coordination (Binocular Vision):
The Brock string helps train the eyes to work together effectively by practicing convergence (turning both eyes inward to focus on a near object) and divergence (turning the eyes outward to focus on a distant object). This improves binocular vision, reducing double vision and enhancing depth perception.

2. Strengthens Focus and Eye Teaming:
Regular use of the Brock string helps individuals develop better focus and eye-teaming abilities, allowing the eyes to accurately follow and focus on moving objects. This is particularly beneficial for improving reading and other close-up tasks that require sustained focus.

3. Increases Spatial Awareness and Depth Perception:
The Brock string exercise encourages the brain to process visual information from both eyes in a coordinated manner, which enhances spatial awareness and depth perception, making it easier to judge distances and perform tasks requiring precise visual coordination.

16/10/2024

Here are three res flags parents should look out for in a child with a learning difficulty:

1. Struggles with Reading and Writing:
A child may have difficulty recognizing letters, spelling words, reading fluently, or expressing thoughts in writing. Frequent reversals of letters or numbers and inconsistent handwriting can also be signs.
2. Difficulty Paying Attention: Children with learning difficulties often have trouble focusing on tasks for extended periods, especially in environments with distractions. They may seem easily frustrated, inattentive, or overly restless during learning activities.
3. Problems Following Instructions:
A child might struggle to understand or remember instructions, especially if they are multi-step directions. This can result in incomplete tasks, confusion, or frustration during schoolwork or homework.

15/10/2024

Here are three ways vision therapy can enhance academic performance:

1. Improved Reading Skills:
Vision therapy helps address issues like eye-tracking and focusing problems, which are crucial for reading. By enhancing these visual functions, students can read more efficiently, with better comprehension and less strain, leading to improved academic outcomes.
2. Increased Attention and Focus:
By correcting visual processing issues such as convergence insufficiency or difficulties with sustained focus, vision therapy can help students maintain attention on tasks for longer periods, reducing distractions and improving concentration in class.
3. Better Hand-Eye Coordination: Vision therapy enhances visual-motor integration, which is critical for tasks like writing, copying from the board, or completing assignments that require precise hand-eye coordination. This can lead to improvements in writing speed and accuracy, positively impacting academic performance.

14/10/2024

Here are three benefits of vision therapy:

1. Improved Visual Skills:
Vision therapy helps strengthen and enhance visual skills such as eye tracking, focusing, and coordination. This can improve overall vision performance, especially for tasks like reading, sports, and other activities requiring precise visual attention.
2. Reduced Eye Strain and Fatigue:
It can alleviate eye strain and visual discomfort caused by excessive screen time, poor visual habits, or refractive errors. This is especially beneficial for people who experience headaches, blurred vision, or tired eyes after reading or computer work.
3. Enhanced Learning and Academic Performance:
For children and adults with vision-related learning difficulties, such as those with convergence insufficiency or tracking problems, vision therapy can improve visual processing, comprehension, and focus, leading to better performance in school or work settings.

27/09/2024

Vision therapy can significantly help with learning difficulties by addressing underlying visual issues that impact academic performance. Two key benefits are:

1. **Improved Reading and Comprehension**: Vision therapy can correct problems like poor eye tracking, convergence insufficiency, and difficulty focusing, which are common in children with learning difficulties. These improvements allow for smoother eye movements across a page, leading to better reading fluency, comprehension, and less strain during prolonged reading tasks.

2. **Enhanced Attention and Focus**: Many children with learning difficulties struggle with sustaining visual attention. Vision therapy helps improve visual stamina and focus, reducing distractions related to eye fatigue or blurred vision. This leads to better concentration during tasks like reading, writing, or working on the computer.

26/09/2024

The tonic labyrinthine reflex (TLR) also has significant effects on visual development and coordination. Here are two points about its relation to vision:

1. **Postural Control and Visual Stability**: The TLR influences a child’s posture and head control. When the head tilts forward or backward, the reflex activates certain muscle groups, affecting overall body posture. This reflex is important for visual stability, as proper head positioning helps maintain a steady visual field. Poor integration of the TLR may result in difficulties with maintaining a stable gaze, leading to problems with reading or tracking moving objects.

2. **Depth Perception and Spatial Orientation**: The TLR affects a child's ability to judge spatial relationships and depth perception. In its early stages, the reflex helps develop the sense of balance and spatial orientation, which are critical for understanding where objects are in relation to oneself. If the TLR remains unintegrated, a child might have trouble with visual-spatial tasks, such as judging distances or navigating their environment, which can affect reading and writing skills.

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Monday	09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday	09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	09:00 - 17:00
Thursday	09:00 - 17:00
Friday	09:00 - 17:00
Saturday	08:00 - 13:00

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