Farmington, CT
Vision Therapy for Reading and Learning Comprehension
Farmington, CT
Vision Therapy for Reading and Learning Comprehension
At SIGHT Multispecialty Center in Farmington, CT, we offer vision therapy services that can help you enhance your reading and learning comprehension skills. Vision plays a crucial role in reading and learning comprehension. When you read, your eyes move across the page in a series of quick jumps called saccades. Each time your eyes make a jump, they need to quickly process the new visual information and focus on the right spot on the page.
When your eyes are functioning properly, your brain can create a clear and stable image of the page, making reading more comfortable. But when there is a problem with your vision, reading becomes difficult and exhausting. Fortunately, vision therapy is a highly effective treatment option for anyone with reading and learning issues.
What is vision therapy?
Vision therapy is a specialized treatment program that helps to improve vision problems that can affect reading and learning abilities. Vision therapy is tailored to the specific needs of each patient and includes exercises to enhance visual skills like tracking and focusing.
How can vision therapy help with reading and learning?
One vision problem that can affect your reading comprehension is convergence insufficiency. This condition happens when your eyes struggle to work together when reading or focusing on close tasks, leading to headaches, eye strain, double vision, and trouble reading. Vision therapy can help train your eyes to work together and improve your reading skills. It involves doing exercises that focus on eye movements and coordination and can be customized to your specific needs.
Another way vision therapy can help improve your reading and learning is by addressing eye tracking problems. When you have issues with eye tracking, your eyes might skip words or lines of text, making it difficult to read and follow along. Vision therapy exercises can help train your eyes to track correctly and decrease the number of reading errors you make.
If you or your child is struggling with reading and learning comprehension issues, contact us to schedule an appointment and ask our eye doctor about vision therapy.