Toe walkers are those brilliant tiny people that begin walking as we all do – on tiptoes, so they can reach up and get at things that they probably should not be touching. However, due to orthopaedic or developmental delays, they do not grow out of the toe walking and fail to achieve the full heel…
Eye Health and Anxiety: What You Need to Know Over two million Australians live with anxiety, impacting their wellbeing, personal relationships, career and productivity. Anxiety affects 1 in 3 women and 1 in 5 men, making it the most common mental health condition in this country [1]. How Anxiety Affects Your Eyes Nearly 12 million Australians have reported having a long term…
At the end of a long day, after hours staring at a computer screen, your eyes are exhausted. You try your best to step away from the screen, but it doesn’t take long until you find yourself checking Facebook while watching TV. Sound familiar? The Effects of Screen Time on Your Eyes If you’re reading…
Today I lined two chairs up across the room directly facing each other. I then asked my patient to sit on one and look at the other. I asked him what he could tell me about it. He told me, in a wonderfully detailed response that “the chair [was] yellow”. Helpful. “Yes”, I said, “but…
When reading or doing close work, a child’s eyes must turn in together (converge) for the words to be clear and single. This usually happens naturally. But for some children, the eyes do not turn in easily. As a result, extra effort must be used to force the eyes to converge, causing a number of…
Vision therapy entails a set program tailored to each individual child to help them develop efficient and automatic vision skills, enabling them to perform to their truest potential. Our behavioural optometrists and vision therapists combine their knowledge of the child’s functional and perceptual skills based on optometric and learning assessments to target the specific skills…
There is research to suggest that a therapeutic goal should be to teach the child to acquire correct eye-hand coordination, as this represents a fundamental prerequisite for sensory integration [1]. Bilateral integration skills, spatial awareness, motion and depth perception, and tracking are further skills that come into play when eye-hand coordination is promoted and encouraged….
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