Monae's Success Story

Congratulations on Graduating

     Monae came to our office with complaints of blurry vision and watery eyes, along with occasional double vision.  Her mom had also noticed Monae’s eye would spontaneously drift outward. 

     During her evaluation Dr. Kungle found that Monae had several visual challenges including Exotropia (a form of strabismus where the eye(s) deviate outward) and Convergence Insufficiency (inability of the eyes inward to have single/clear vision at near). 

     Through completing her vision therapy program Monae improved her binocular system and has trained her eyes to work together without any wondering of the eye.  Through vision therapy Monae’s occulomotor skills improved tremendously; she now reads well above grade level!

Pre-School Screening

     This past Monday we hosted our first pre-school seminar.  This seminar was geared toward children who are entering into school. Our office offered free visual screenings for the children that came.  We were excited at the turn out since most of these children will be attending school in the next few weeks.  The importance of visual exams for younger children is sometimes overlooked until they enter into school.  Even then the children are mostly checked for correct 20/20 vision. It is recommended that young children receive a full visual exam at the age of three and then again before going into kindergarten.

     During our free screening we checked the following areas: visual acuity at near, eye movements, depth perception, and general movement.  All of these areas are greatly needed for physical activities such as sports, being able to learn in a classroom setting, and is directly related to a child’s ability to read and write. 80% of what a child learns comes from their visual system.

Preschool Seminar and Free Screening

Is your child visually ready for preschool? 

Preschoolers need to develop visually guided eye-hand-body coordination, fine motor skills, and the visual motor ability neccessary to learn to read and perform tasks that he or she will soon need in school.

Join us Monday, 8/13, 11:30am-1pm 

for our free seminar and free screening!

  Parents will recieve a $50 off voucher for

a future comprehensive vision evaluation by our doctors for each of their children. 

RSVP- 410-268-4393

August is National Children's Vision & Learning Month

Did you know that this month is National Children's Vision and Learning Month?  Vision and learning are connected in so many ways.  According to the American Public Health Association, 1 in 4 students in grades K-6 have a visual problem serious enough to impede learning.  Vision involves much more than how well your child sees the eye chart.  Most school and pediatrician screenings only check for distance acuity, so you may think that your child has no visual issues if they can see the 20/20 line.  The reality is that the vision skills required for reading and learning are much more complex than simply reading the eye chart.

A developmental eye exam from an optometrist who specializes in vision related learning problems, like Dr. Kungle or Dr. O'Meara is an in-depth look at how your child's vision is helping or hurting their learning potential.  The examination will include measures of your child's sight, eye control, eye teaming, eye tracking, focusing skills, spatial perception, eye-hand-body coordination, visual memory, visualization skills, and other facets of how your child uses his or her eyes to learn.

Announcing... our next event!

Please join The Center for Vision Development for a free seminar on Wednesday, August 22nd at 6pm.

Is Your Child Visually Ready for (Pre)School?

Learn the key visual skills necessary for reading and writing.

We will show you how to test for basic problems and how to help fix them!

Reserve your spot!  RSVP 410-268-4393

2 CE credits awarded

July Open House

On Wednesday, July 18th, The Center For Vision Development hosted an Open House to welcome Dr. Emily O'Meara to the practice.

We chatted, enjoyed refreshments, and demonstrated some of our vision therapy activities for our attendees- current and future patients, their families, and local professionals.  Our doctors and staff members were on hand to give tours of our office, answer questions about our practice, and demonstrate vision therapy activities.  We highlighted our Readalyzer, a computerized eye movement recording system that analyzes eye movements necessary for reading.  All attendees had the opportunity to try out the Readalyzer, and Drs. Kungle and O'Meara were there to help interpret the results.

We hope you will join us for our next event, a free seminar entitled "Is Your Child Visually Ready for (Pre)School?" on August 22nd.

August is...

     Parents and students are sharing their success stories to celebrate August as National Children’s Vision and Learning Month and help educate others about the critical link between vision and learning. 

    

      After years of struggling, families across the U.S. are now seeing their children succeed after an underlying vision problem was diagnosed and treated with optometric vision therapy.

The five most common signs that a vision problem may be interfering with your student's ability to read and learn are:

• Skips lines, rereads lines
• Poor reading comprehension
• Takes much longer doing homework than it should take
• Reverses letters like “b” into “d” when reading
• Has a short attention span with reading and schoolwork

Everyday here at The Center for Vision Development, we witness children with these challenges succeed and dramatically improve their quality of education and life.

Do you have a Vision Therapy success story to share?  We would love to hear from you.  Please leave us a comment below!