Discovering Vision Therapy Blog

I don’t get it.  Where’s the public outcry?  Where are the crowds massing on the Capitol Mall, crying out “Vision Therapy for Children!  Vision Therapy for All Children!” 

As a writer for The Vision Therapy Center, one of my jobs is to act as kind of a translator/layman for Dr. Knueppel and Dr. Begotka.  I often have to dive deep into research papers and technical studies, the likes of which often do not make for very enjoyable, or even understandable reading.  Thus, it’s no surprise that we’re constantly asked “What is vision therapy?”

A news reporter was talking to me about several of Dr. Kellye Knueppel’s recommendations for preventing computer eye strain, one of which included stopping every 15 minutes and looking at an object 20 feet away for 20 seconds.

Photophobia is a sensitivity or intolerance of light, and it can cause people to avoid sunlight, computers, fluorescent lights and car headlights.  Instead of altering their life to avoid the stimuli that provokes light sensitivity, people should address the underlying cause of photophobia.

Recently Carleen Wild of WMTV-Madison visited Dr. Kellye Knueppel and spoke to her about the emerging problem of computer eye strain.  Watch the video and discover:

We’ve blogged repeatedly on the benefits of vision therapy for lazy eye (amblyopia).  Within all those posts are plenty of reasons why you should consider vision therapy for lazy eye.  Here are 9 very good ones.

A recent article featured Greg Jennings of our beloved Green Bay Packers, talking about the benefits of sports vision training using glasses specially designed by Nike.  Greg’s training and Nike’s glasses seem to be yielding results, but they’re only one piece of the sports vision training puzzle.

You take your kids to the dentist, right?  Without hesitation, from the moment they were born, you, as a good parent, have it ingrained in your head to take your child to the dentist.  But what about a vision test?

In the first part of this series on vision problems of gifted children, we focused on why visual skills can be overlooked in gifted children.  We also related details of how gifted patients can often make for very resistant patients, a fact that doesn’t surprise Dr. Knueppel.

We spend a lot of time focusing on vision problems in kids with dyslexia, ADHD or developmental disabilities.  But there is a population that is often overlooked when it comes to vision skills:  The gifted child.