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Best Optometrist & Eye Care That You Can Trust

Our clinic specializes in enhancing visual skills, visual information processing, and functional vision, catering to both children and adults whose visual needs are not fully addressed by glasses, contacts, or surgery alone. We tailored programs to address specific visual challenges, combining structured in-office sessions with guided at-home exercises.

These personalized plans typically span several weeks or months and are designed to meet the unique needs of each individual. The program employs specialized tools and techniques to enhance visual performance and coordination, improving the connection between the brain and the eyes.

We specialize area within optometry that integrates vision therapy into the recovery process for individuals with neurological conditions. This innovative approach helps patients regain lost visual function, enhancing both independence and quality of life.

Our behavioral neuro-optometrist is a healthcare professional focused on diagnosing and treating vision problems caused by neurological conditions, such as concussions, strokes, or neurotrauma. Our clinic also specializes in artificial eyes (ocular prosthesis) that serve a diverse range of patients who have lost an eye or have severely disfigured eye due to trauma, illness, or congenital conditions.

Patients We Serve

Children with Learning-Related Vision Problems

Addressing difficulties with reading, writing, and school performance caused by poor eye teaming, tracking, or focus.

Strabismus and Amblyopia

Treating "lazy eye" and eye misalignment, often as a non-surgical alternative or post-surgical enhancement.

Neuro-Rehabilitation (Brain Injuries)

Rehabilitating vision deficits resulting from concussion, stroke, whiplash, cerebral palsy, or MS.

Binocular Vision Dysfunction

Treating problems with eye-teaming and focusing, such as convergence insufficiency (e.g., double vision, eye strain).

Special Needs Populations

Providing tailored care for developmental conditions like Non-verbal, Learning disability, ADHD, Autism, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Post-traumatic head injury.

Color Vision Improvement

Targeted treatment for specific colors, particularly red and green deficiency.

Prosthetic Eye Care

Providing artificial eye for post-surgical patients, trauma survivors, congenital conditions, disease-related eye loss.

The Vision Therapy Process

A sequence of visual activities specifically designed to meet the patients’ visual needs comprise the program. To teach the eye-brain link, vision therapists use a variety of instruments, including customized lenses, prisms, patches, filters, balancing boards, and digital simulations. Under the direction of the eye doctor, each treatment session is conducted once or twice a week in the office.

What is Functional Vision?

There is more to functional vision than 20/20! It explains how the eyes, visual pathway, and other parts of the brain function as a whole to help you see, process, and interact with your surroundings. Academic performance, focus, athletic ability, coordination, and even self-confidence can all be impacted by this. Imagine growing up in a world where you didn’t know it wasn’t natural for words to float on a page or for little things to periodically double when viewed up close. Everything else is taken for granted, and you might easily pass the “20/20” eyesight test at the pediatrician or at school.

The following visual skill areas are part of functional vision:

Eye Teaming

This is the capacity to focus and align both eyes on the same spot in three dimensions. They can work together in synchrony, precisely, and with coordination when they have good eye teaming. This is essential for developing strong depth perception and for comfortable single vision. The eyes will not be properly aligned if the two eyes are not working nicely together. Poor teamwork is typically subtle and not immediately apparent, however occasionally it can be seen with an eye turn. The brain receives distinct images from each eye if the eyes are not aligned, and the visual processing centers are unable to integrate them into a coherent three-dimensional image. Obviously, this can result in eyestrain, exhaustion, headaches, avoiding complicated work, annoyance, and more. It can also cause double vision, poor (or nonexistent) depth perception, the impression of text "bleeding," or the feeling that things are ghosting around their edges.

Eye Focusing Control

The ability to alter or change your clear focus across objects at different distances is known as eye focusing control. Imagine focusing on a piece of paper in front of you, then glancing up at a distant object, such as a blackboard, across the room. It's crucial to move the eye's focus back and forth between the eyes in a smooth, effective, and uniform manner. Strength is vital, but so are facility, accuracy, and control. While distance focus may be fine, someone may struggle to maintain clarity and focus when reading. The contrary is also frequently observed: the eye may lose focus and blur after a few minutes of looking, even though the focus may initially be good at 20/20. Many people are able to see 20/20 up close and/or far away, but they lack the ability to regulate, shift, or sustain their focus.

Eye Movement Skills

This involves the eyes' ability to stay focused, or fixated, on an object moving across space. It also involves the capacity to maintain fixation on a stationary object as well as to transfer fixation between objects. Assume you are aiming two movie cameras at the same target. To retain a clear image, each camera must move precisely in sync with the other. Easy eye movement along print lines, a quick and precise return to the next line, efficient scanning of vertical columns in math, precise targeting (not focusing) from desk to chalkboard and back, and effective visual inspection of three-dimensional objects as in arts and crafts are all made possible by this ability. Accurate and effective eye movements are necessary for following a softball into your glove, focusing on the central bull's-eye of a target in archery, and moving your eyes over a line of text in a book.

Depth Perception Skills

The brain's ability to combine two images—one from each eye—into a single, comprehensive image containing depth or distance information is known as this skill. This is basically what is happening with the information from each eye, like two streams flowing together to make a larger river. It enables surety and security in general movement, superior assessment of "me-it" interactions in athletic activities, and efficient craft examination. When stereopsis (central depth perception) is impaired, comprehension issues are frequently mentioned by educational writers.

Visual Perceptual Skills, or Visual Information Processing (VIP)

Visual information processing abilities gather visual information from the eyes, connect it to prior knowledge and other senses, interpret it, and develop plans of action. Form recognition, size and shape constancy, laterality and directionality, visual manipulation, and visualization are some of these abilities. Ineffective use of these abilities prevents visual information from effectively enhancing one's comprehension of the outside world.