Ensure the necessary visual skills are being assessed during the Illinois School Vision Exam

While scrolling on various social media platforms, you may have stumbled across videos portraying different unusual visual scenarios that...

Understanding Convergence Insufficiency Convergence insufficiency (CI) is the most common binocular vision dysfunction that affects the...

Phototherapy Phototherapy or light therapy is defined as the use of exposure to light to treat health conditions. This is utilized in...

After sustaining a concussion, patients often experience a range of debilitating visual and systemic symptoms, including dizziness,...

As parents, it's not uncommon to face the challenge of distinguishing between typical childhood behaviors and signs of underlying issues....

Does your child often mistake the letters “b” for “d” or “p” for “q”? These mistakes, known as letter reversal errors, oftentimes cause...

Aniseikonia is the difference between image size or shape perceived by both eyes. Most often caused by an asymmetric prescription of the...

Monocular treatment for amblyopia, such as patching or penalization, does not always result in 20/20 vision. Moreover, recurrence of...

Common Misconceptions about Vision There are two terms that are interchanged often with the assumption that they have the same meaning,...

Vision therapy is a doctor directed program (by an optometrist) that is aimed at training the brain and eyes to work together. Vision...

When a child is asked to attend to near point tasks, such as reading or schoolwork, the visual demand naturally increases due to the...

Too often, pencil push-ups are assigned as an “exercise” to improve ocular convergence ability. Occupational therapists, physical...

Visual perception is the process we use to gather visual information from the environment and the ability to organize, understand and...

Primitive reflexes are automatic movements originating in the brain stem and are essential for a baby’s survival in the first few weeks...

Often descriptions of vision therapy include the phrase “vision exercises” or “physical therapy for your eyes”, this phrasing, however,...

In our January blog post we reviewed some of the visual issues that can arise with vestibular disorders. So to continue this topic...

In our last blog post we discussed the connection between the vestibular system and visual system via the automatic function known as the...

A great analogy for explaining the connection between the visual system and the vestibular system is described in an article by the...

Myopia, also known as nearsightedness, refers to someone who sees things more clearly up close rather than in the distance. There are at...