Therapies for Eye Defects

Several years ago, the American Academy of Optometry and the American Optometric Association jointly issued a policy statement on vision learning and dyslexia, a reading disability. This policy states, Optometric intervention for people with learning-related vision and reading problems consists of lenses, reading glasses, prisms and vision therapy. Vision therapy does not directly treat learning disabilities or dyslexia. Vision therapy is a treatment to improve visual efficiency and visual process, thereby allowing the person to be more responsive to educational instruction. It does not preclude any other form of treatment and should be a part of a multidisciplinary approach to learning disabilities.

Vision therapy, the art and science of developing and enhancing visual abilities and remediating vision and reading dysfunctions, has a firm foundation in vision science, and both its application and efficacy have been established in the scientific literature. Some sources have erroneously associated optometric vision therapy with controversial and unfounded therapies, and equate eye defects with visual dysfunctions.

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