Vision Therapy & Rehab
At Saugeen Vision Centre, we provide comprehensive vision therapy and rehabilitation tailored to each patient’s unique needs. With state-of-the-art equipment and a compassionate team, we guide patients through targeted exercises and treatments to strengthen their visual system. Whether recovering from an injury or managing a chronic condition, our therapy helps patients achieve lasting results and clearer vision for an improved quality of life.
Improve or Resolve Eye Conditions with
Vision Development Therapy
Vision Therapy is a doctor-supervised, customized program designed to improve the function of the visual system by enhancing the connection between the eyes and the brain. This non-invasive approach uses tools such as lenses, prisms, filters, and 3D activities to create new visual experiences. Vision therapy addresses a variety of challenges, including eye alignment issues, eye injuries, visual processing delays or simply to improve hand-eye coordination. By strengthening the visual system, this therapy helps patients get more out of life with clearer vision and enhanced performance.
What it Treats
- Strabismus (eye turn)
- Amblyopia (lazy eye)
- Learning Difficulties
- Vestibulo-Ocular Dysfunctions
- Autism Spectrum Disorders
- Progressive Myopia Control
- Traumatic Brain Injuries: Concussion, Post-Concussion Syndrome, and Stroke
- ADHD and Dyslexia are often found to have underlying processing difficulties
What Exactly is
Vision Training?
Helping you look, see and feel better.
For millions of Canadians, vision training has transformed the way they look, see, and feel. Whether addressing an eye misalignment, recovering from eye surgery, or improving hand-eye coordination and visual skills, vision training offers a painless and highly rewarding solution.
This specialized program is tailored to the unique needs of each patient and is suitable for both children and adults. Vision training is ideal for correcting eye alignment, improving eye teaming, enhancing eye coordination, and improving focus efficiency. Through targeted tasks, training exercises, eye patching, and testing, vision training teaches the brain to work harmoniously with both eyes, resulting in clearer vision and better overall functionality.
How Vision Training Helps Kids
Vision training helps children overcome vision challenges that can affect their learning and development. Since over 80% of what kids learn in school is presented visually, those with vision problems may struggle with reading, focus, and comprehension. By improving eye coordination, focus, and processing, vision training empowers children to excel academically and build confidence.
Eye Alignment
Eye alignment concerns, such as amblyopia or strabismus, can make learning nearly impossible. It can also affect a child's self-esteem and confidence. Vision training helps correct misalignment, enabling both eyes to work together for clearer and more focused vision.
Engagement & Comprehension
Around 20% of children struggle to develop the visual skills necessary for academic success. One of the most prevalent visual challenges is near vision, which affects tasks like reading. Reading is one of the most challenging demands placed on our vision. Vision training enhances your child's eye teaming (the coordination of both eyes), tracking (the ability to maintain focus on an object), and comprehension skills.
How Vision Training Helps Adults
Vision training benefits adults too! Adults often achieve faster results than children due to their ability to better understand and apply the training techniques, making it easier to address issues like eye alignment, tracking and focus for daily tasks.
Eye Alignment & Tracking
Eye alignment issues are less common in adults than in children; however, vision training proves to be an effective method for addressing these concerns. Frequently utilized following eye alignment surgery, vision training helps retrain the eyes and guarantee they maintain proper alignment.
Syntonic (Light) Therapy for Visual Dysfunctions
Syntonics, also known as optometric phototherapy, is a distinct field within ocular science that utilizes targeted light frequencies administered through the eyes. For more than 70 years, this technique has been employed in clinical environments to effectively treat visual dysfunctions such as strabismus (crossed eyes), amblyopia (lazy eye), focusing difficulties, learning disorders, and the impacts of stress and trauma. Recently, Syntonics has demonstrated efficacy in addressing brain injuries and emotional disorders as well.
Advanced Equipment for Reformative Vision Therapy
State-of-the-Art Technology
Our advanced equipment provides state-of-the-art vision training solutions, ensuring excellence in behavioral optometry, vision rehabilitation, and general optometry, setting you on the path to success! It’s important to note that having good acuity (20/20 eyesight) doesn't automatically mean possessing strong visual skills. Critical visual abilities essential for achieving success in school, sports, and everyday life encompass eye movement control, peripheral vision, depth perception, colour recognition, visual perception, and much more.
RightEye
RightEye is the world’s first commercialized eye-tracking system for general healthcare and wellness. This 5-minute, non-invastive test easily and accurately records, views, and analyzes indiscernible eye movements impossible to view with standard eye tests. In one assessment, it measures several different eye tracking tests. It illustrates vision issues that may impact reading and learning, including comprehension, fixations & saccades, reading gaze replay, head movement, gaze disparity, and more.
Vivid Vision
Vivid Vision is a virtual reality system designed to treat amblyopia, strabismus (lazy eye), convergence insufficiency and those that lack stereo depth perception. It is an interactive vision assessment and exercise that uses virtual reality hardware to deliver different images to each of your eyes to slowly decrease the difference between the two. Designed for all ages, Vivid Vision training can be done at out clinic, or from the comfort at home with a home-use system (must be prescribed by your Vision Therapy Optometrist).
Schedule a Consultation
At Saugeen Vision Centre, we believe your eyes deserve the best care at every stage of life. Our expert optometrists are dedicated to enhancing your visual skills through personalized assessments and targeted exercises. Discover how our comprehensive approach can optimize your eye health and performance today.
