We highly encourage patients to pursue our fun-packed vision therapy home kit in conjunction to the regular therapy sessions.

The kit, consists of two parts with the first part being a little bag with a wide range of fun activities consisting of various eye exercises individually assigned according to the patient’s needs, and a series of games targeting visual perception skills.

If that’s not enough? Why not add another application to your tablet/PC?  As people are spending more times on screens, we have brought vision therapy to the digital world.

We have partnered with international providers of innovative digital vision therapy solutions to deliver quality evidence-based eye care.

The application, in a form of multiple games, will keep the most uncooperative child intrigued. The orthoptist can monitor the patient’s daily participation using the online cloud and individually assign the games, and their difficulty level according to what needs to be achieved.

The majority of eye movement-related disorders such as lazy eyes, eye turns, double vision and more have a destructive effect on functional vision as certain skills are compromised such as eye teaming, the alignment of the eyes, eye tracking and eye focusing. As a result, daily activities, especially ones we take for granted like depth perception or seeing a single image are troublesome to some people. Additionally, nearly 80% of our learning input is visual, subconsciously building visual skills to  recognise letters/words (shape & form), read smoothly and write (hand-eye coordination)! Let alone our daily activities and routines, nearly all of it requires impulsive visual actions.

Vision therapy works on improving academic performance, boosting confidence and unlocking the Child’s potential through developing functional vision. In turn, opening up doors of future life opportunities.

Vision therapy has been proven more successful than surgery and is effective in treating a series of eye movement disorders and visual processing disorders including those caused by head trauma, brain injury or stroke.

In such circumstances, vision therapy works on eliminating double vision by improving muscle control or aiding with prisms. Vision therapy also reduces disturbing visual symptoms associated with certain eye conditions such as headaches or jumping words. Moreover, visual rehabilitation works on expanding visual fields and learning the skill of eccentric fixation. Lastly, vision therapy integrates visual skills with other physical  skills such as balance or hand-eye coordination to play sports or move around smoothly.

Vision therapy can effectively treat other eye conditions such computer vision syndrome.

However, the key to successful therapy relies on a strict regime consisting of progressive in-office therapy sessions and daily assigned exercise homework. 

Through repetition and integration of motor and cognitive skills with the visual system, newly developed visual skills are strengthened and subconsciously reinforced during the final stages of therapy.

Various eye conditions may affect vision differently. However, the below symptoms are common and an individual may experience one or more of the following:

• Blurry vision
• Headaches or tiredness after reading
• head tilting
• Turning of head to a certain direction to see better
• Wandering of an eye 
• Turning of an eye
• Constant squinting
• Bringing reading material or phone/tablet extremely close to the eye
• Tendency to cover or close one eye
• Favouring the vision in one eye
• Double vision
• Watery eyes
• Red eyes
• Difficulty following a moving target
• Dizziness or motion sickness

Sometimes vision problems are subtle and can go undetected, often mistaken as poor school performance compared to child’s grade level or misdiagnosed as behaviours consistent with conditions such as ADHD or Autism. While children with special needs are at higher risks of vision problems; learning difficulties can be solely attributed to vision problems. 

If the development of the visual system is delayed or compromised, integrating it with other systems and senses can be challenging affecting learning and physical performance in many areas. 

Learning problems related to vision include:

• Reading below grade level, slow reading
• Reduced reading comprehension
• Loss of place, repetition or omission of words and lines while reading
• Confusing similar words
• Reversing letters such as b, d, p and q 
• Spelling difficulties
• Dislikes or avoids homework or near work activities
• Writing numbers backwards, such as 2 & 5 or 6 & 9
• Difficulty maintaining attention
• Difficulty remembering what was read or seen
• Difficulty drawing similar pictures 
• Difficulty tracing or copying
• Difficulty matching similar objects
• Difficulty in solving puzzles or finding objects like where’s wally? or word search
• Difficulty changing focus from distance to near and back again
• Poor judgment of depth
• Poor hand eye coordination
• Dislikes sports participation
• Increased clumsiness

Amblyopia: Commonly referred to as lazy eye. Occurs due to reduced vision in one eye during the early stages of development. The brain tends to shut off input from the lazy eye and depend on the fellow eye for vision.

Accommodation: Is our ability to maintain clear focus of objects, especially as we switch back and forth between variable distances. Accommodation mainly occurs at near and our natural ability to accommodate reduces with age.

Accommodation Insufficiency: Is usually a resultant of increased exposure to visual stress. It occurs when a person can’t sustain a clear focus at near for a certain period of time. Common complaints include headaches, blurry vision, difficulty ready due to moving lines or double vision, and more.

Astigmatism: Is a type of refractive error caused by an irregular corneal shape (normal cornea is spherical) causing blur in all distances. other symptoms include halos and glare at lights and during night time. Easily corrected with the aid of glasses.

Binocular Vision: Is the ability of eyes to work as a team (move in the same direction).

Binocular Single Vision: Refers to the eyes looking at the same object and the ability of the brain to fuse the overlapping images seen by each eye into a single 3-dimensional image.

Convergence: Is the inward movement of the eyes as they look and at a near object.

Convergence Insufficiency: Reduced ability of the eyes to move inward. Common symptoms include blurred vision and double vision.

Diplopia: Double vision

Hyperopia: A type of refractive error commonly known as long-sighted, can see far distances clearly but unable to view objects at near in clear focus.

Myopia: A type of refractive error commonly known as short-sighted, can see near distances clearly but unable to view objects in the distance in clear focus.

Neuroplasticity: Refers to the brain’s ability to learn, change and adapt in response to a certain experience.

Nystagmus: Is the rapid involuntary movements of the eyes. Can occur in one or both eyes. Eyes can move back and forth or up and down, or when the person looks at a certain direction. Nystagmus can be congenital (born with) or acquired (causes other symptoms such as nausea).

Phoria: Can be thought of as a hidden eye turn or misalignment of eyes that becomes obvious when a person is tired and the fusion of binocular single vision is broken. The majority of individuals have small degrees of natural phoria.

Oscillopsia: The sensation of moving surrounds when in fact the surrounding is stationary. Common with acquired nystagmus or brain injury.

Stereopsis: Refers to the ability to view and perceive depth.

Strabismus: Alternatively known as squints or eye turns. Is the misalignment of eyes due to imbalance in the muscles or nerves of the eyes.

Tropia: Is the actual turning of the eye when looking at a certain direction/distance due to inability to fuse or hold the fusion. The eye turn of a tropia is usually constant in that particular direction/distance.

Visual Acuity: Is a measure of the ability of an individual to see sharply at a certain distance.

Visual Discrimination: Is the ability to identify objects of similar form, shape, size and colour.

Visual Closure: Is the ability to visually complete a partially missing features of images.

Visual Figure Ground: Is the ability to distinguish an object from irrelevant background information.

Visual motor skills: Refers to the ability to hand-eye coordination (hit a target, self feed, hold a pencil, use a tool or pick up tiny objects)

Visual Memory: The ability to remember visual information over a long period of time. Useful for reading, comprehension and spelling.

Visual Perception: Refers to the visual processing and cognitive skills required to interpret and make use of visual information.

Visual Sequential Memory: The ability to remember visual information in sequence.

Visual Spatial Skills: Refers to one’s ability to recognise the presence of own body in space, as well as, directional concepts.