FUNCTIONAL VISION TRAINING
Seeing clearly is only part of how vision works. The eyes also need to track, team up, focus, and coordinate with movement— and when those skills break down, the result is often headaches, fatigue, difficulty reading, or trouble with balance and attention, even if you have perfect 20/20 visual acuity. Vision training retrains these skills through structured, progressive exercises. We work with children who struggle with reading and school tasks, and with adults recovering from concussion or neurological injury.
Core Movement & Focusing Skills
.jpg){kind=tracking}
Eye Tracking (Pursuits)
How smoothly the eyes follow a moving target. Difficulty here shows up as losing your place while reading or having trouble with catching and ball sports.
Saccadic Eye Movements
The quick jumps the eyes make between points, like moving from one word to the next or looking from the board to your desk. Inefficient saccades make reading slow and tiring.
Accommodation (Focusing)
How well and how quickly the eyes focus at different distances and how long that focus can be held before things blur
Eye Teaming & Coordination
Eye Teaming
(Binocular Vision)
How well the two eyes work together as a pair. When they fail to coordinate, people may see double, close one eye, or simply avoid close work.
Convergence & Divergence
The eyes ability to turn inward for near work and outward for distance. Convergence difficulty is one of the most common causes of reading fatigue and headaches.
Depth Perception
Judging distance accurately, which is important for navigating stairs, driving, playing sports, and moving confidently through busy environments
Visual Processing & Integration
Visual Attention
Sustaining visual focus on a task without being pulled away by everything else in view.
Visual Scanning
Searching a page or a scene in an organized way, such as finding a specific word in a book, an item on a shelf, or a line on a form
Visual Perception
How visual information is interpreted, which includes recognizing shapes, spotting differences, and making sense of details
Visual-Motor Integration
Coordinating what the eyes see with what the hands do. This underpins handwriting, drawing, and copying.
Visual Memory
Holding visual information in mind, like remembering how a word is spelled or copying from a board without looking back repeatedly
Spatial Awareness
Understanding where things are in relation to each other and to your own body, which affects how you lay out work on a page and move through physical space
Dynamic Navigation &
Functional Rehabilitation
Safely navigating visually overwhelming environments like busy grocery stores, crowded hallways, or transit stations without triggering dizziness or sensory overload.
How comfortably and how long someone can read before fatigue, loss of place, or avoidance sets in
Vision is frequently affected after a head injury or stroke. We address how the visual system is recovering and what is still limiting school, work, or daily activities
Environmental Processing
Reading efficiency
Functional Vision Following Concussion or Neurological Injury
Fall prevention and Spatial Negotiation
Visual Scanning for Mobility
Using vision to anticipate changes in terrain, judge curbs and stairs accurately, and avoid obstacles safely after a neurological injury
Adapting how the eyes scan the environment to compensate for visual field cuts or inattention while walking in the community.