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Vision Therapy

Visual Games for the Holidays – Spot It & Blink

Are you looking for some fun visual games this holiday season? Well, look no further. This month I’ll be recommending some great visual perceptual games that help develop basic skills for visual thinking, such as visual memory, sequencing and patterns, form perception, visual discrimination and visual figure ground. Enjoy! Spot It – Ages 7 and […]

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Vision Therapy

Visual Games for the Holidays – Qwirkle & Swish

Are you looking for some fun visual games this holiday season? Well, look no further.  This month I’ll be recommending some great visual perceptual games that help develop basic skills for visual thinking, such as visual memory, sequencing and patterns, form perception, visual discrimination and visual figure ground.  Enjoy!  Qwirkle – Ages 6 and up; […]

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Visual Development

Why Visual Development in Children Is Important

  Vision development in children involves not only the development of good eyesight such as 20/20 vision but also fine motor development, gross motor development, and visual perceptual development.  A large part of visual development in children takes place when they are preschoolers, and proper vision development in children closely follows the cognitive stages for […]

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Visual Development

How to Know if Your Three-Year-Old is Behind in Visual Development

Visual development in children is extremely important in producing good gross motor development, fine motor development, and to achieve the proper cognitive stages for child development.  Children with poor vision development will often exhibit learning problems when they start grade school and may tend to be clumsy and disorganized. So it’s important to know if […]

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Visual Development

5 Reasons For Delayed Vision Development in Children

Visual development in children is a very important part of child development including fine motor development, gross motor development, and visual perceptual development. Without good vision development in children, many cognitive stages of child development may be delayed and learning problems could occur once the child enters kindergarten and grade school. So why is visual […]

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Visual Development

Encouraging Good Visual Development in Children

Vision development in children is a very important part of child development which influences fine motor development, gross motor development, and visual perceptual development.  Good visual development in children is necessary for proper brain maturation, and, many cognitive stages of child development may be delayed and learning problems could arise if proper vision development has […]

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Vision Therapy

The Mystery of Unidentified Learning Disabilities

According to the Optometrist’s Network, there are a disturbing amount of children who have been misdiagnosed with a variety of different learning disabilities. Often, medication or remedial education is recommended, until someone knowledgeable about functional vision problems steer parents toward an evaluation by a qualified developmental optometrist. In many cases, it is not a learning […]

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Reflexes

The Secret That No One Likes To Talk About … Bedwetting

Owing to the high level of discomfort and embarrassment it causes, bedwetting -“nocturnal enuresis”- is often a well-kept secret that no parents or bedwetting children wish to talk about. However, it is a common problem that affects millions of young children including teens. While bedwetting is attributed to several factors, there is evidence that proves […]

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Vision Therapy

Why Vision Therapy Can Keep Our Kids From Failing in School (Part 2)

This post is a continuation of the post “Why Vision Therapy Can Keep Our Kids From Failing in School (Part 1)”. The Life of a Child in 2010 Whether their mothers work outside of the home or not, parents are very afraid to let their children play outside unsupervised because of the threat of child […]

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Vision Therapy

Why Vision Therapy Can Keep Our Kids From Failing in School (Part 1)

If any of you are in your 40’s or older, you will remember that very few children had severe reading problems when we were in grade school. Of course some children could read and perform math problems better than others, but all of them possessed the rudimentary abilities to do so. Today the situation in […]