What Is Vision Therapy?

Vision therapy is an individualized and supervised treatment program designed to correct eye teaming, eye tracking, eye focusing, visual-motor and visual-perceptual deficiencies in both children and adults. It’s often compared to physical therapy—except for your eyes and brain.

Rather than treating just eyesight (how clearly you see), vision therapy focuses on how the eyes work together, process information, and coordinate with the brain and body. This makes it different from glasses or contact lenses, which only address visual acuity.

How Does Vision Therapy Work?

Vision therapy includes a series of customized exercises that retrain the brain and visual system to work more efficiently. Sessions may include:

Eye and brain excercises
“Training” lenses and prisms
Filters and eye patches
Balance boards and other interactive tools

Therapy is typically done weekly in-office with guided home reinforcement. Progress is closely monitored by your doctor throughout the program.

Who Can Benefit?

Vision therapy is for all ages—from children struggling in school to adults with eye strain, headaches, or poor coordination. It can help with:

Eye tracking deficits including oculomotor dysfunction, saccadic dysfunction and/or pursuit dysfunction
Eye teaming deficits including binocular vision dysfunction, convergence insufficiency, convergence excess, divergence insufficiency, divergence excess
Eye focusing deficits including accommodative infacility and accommodative dysfunction
Visual processing and visual perceptual delays
Lazy eye (amblyopia) or eye turns (strabismus)
Post-concussion vision problems
Reading difficulties and more

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Why It Matters

When functional vision problems go untreated, they can affect reading, attention, depth perception, learning, sports performance, and everyday comfort.

Vision therapy offers a path to lifelong improvement—not just in vision, but in confidence, academic and work performance, and overall quality of life.