Orthoptic Vision Therapy

Is your child having difficulties in learning?  Does your child enjoy reading?   Eye teaming skills are necessary for success at school. Orthoptic vision therapy is available at the IGARD Group to re-educate the visual reflexes and acquire proper visual habits. 

Orthoptics is an established science in vision therapy to treat problems in binocular vision. It is NOT Bates Method which does not employ scientific studies in their claims to improving eyesight.

Binocular Vision (orthoptics) is a branch of optometry which examines the functional aspects of how we use both eyes together as a pair. It is not concerned with strengthening the power of individual eye muscles, but re-establishing correct muscles and sensory coordination. It teaches a child how to gain control of his/her eye muscle coordination. It also teaches the brain how to use both eyes together (e.g. eliminates suppression) and to receive and fuse images from both eyes at the same time.   

IGARD = Improving eyesight

+ Guarding Against Reading Difficulties

Learn more about:   Eye Teaming, Binocular Instability, Fixation Disparity, Eye Tracking, Saccades, Ocular Accommodation, Accommodative Convergence, Suppression, etc.  

The American Optometric Association defines vision therapy (VT) as a “treatment plan used to correct or improve specific dysfunctions of the vision system. It includes, but is not limited to, the treatment of strabismus (turned eye), other dysfunctions of binocularity (eye teaming), amblyopic (lazy eye), accommodation (eye focusing), ocular motor function (general eye movement ability), and visual-perception-motor abilities. Optometric vision therapy is based upon a medically necessary plan of treatment which is designed to improve specific vision dysfunctions determined by standardized diagnostic criteria.  Treatment plans encompass lenses, prisms, occlusion (eye patching), and other appropriate materials, modalities, and equipment