Summer Sunglass Trends
Summer is here! Protect your eyes in style by following the six most popular sunglass trends of 2014. We carry all of these styles at Family Eyecare Centre!
Vision Therapy isn’t just for kids!
If an adult’s vision problems were not caught early than they would still exist into adulthood, and occasionally symptoms that were once manageable become more problematic…
What Is Vision Training?
Visual skills are developed over time, like any other skill you have. So these skills, like all others, can be improved by training. This training can be life-changing for those whose visual skills didn’t develop fully or properly.
ADHD or Convergence Insufficiency?
There are 9 major symptoms used to diagnose ADHD in children. Of these nine symptoms, five of them overlap with the symptoms of a common visual disorder called convergence insufficiency
Normal Vision Development in Children
New parents should be aware of how their child’s vision develops over time, and what is normal. Infants and young children don’t typically outgrow vision problems, but I’ve seen firsthand that the sooner these problems are treated the better chance they have of being fully corrected. So as soon as you suspect a problem, schedule an eye exam.
How Vision Therapy can Improve Saccadic Eye Movements and Help Reading Problems
What are saccadic eye movements? Saccadic eye movements are very fast jumps from one eye position to another. These are the eye movements used in reading or searching. This scanning of the visual field is learned during the first years of life, developing as a child explores their environment. In fact, saccades are the very first eye movements that develop! How saccadic deficiencies affect reading These eye movements are critical to success and speed of reading. If they do not develop well, it can result in the opposite effect: slow, frustrated reading. When learning to read the eyes must be able to align and track together (or form saccades) letter-by-letter, word-by-word, and line-by-line. Errors can be made when the eyes lose their place and have to backtrack (leading to re-reading and slow reading). Or instead of moving smoothly they skip around (leading to ‘words moving on a page’ or loss of place when reading and/or misreading words like ‘saw’ instead of ‘was’). When errors like these happen frequently, so much effort is put into trying to coordinate the eyes that reading comprehension declines dramatically.
