Parents, teachers and health care professionals should see this video by the National Eye Institute. Too often children with reading and attention problems are overlooked in the healthcare delivery system, labeled with ADHD, learning disabilities and/or behavior problems when instead they have a common undiagnosed eye condition known as convergence insufficiency (CI).
Watch this video and see what the director of the National Eye Institute (NEI), researchers as well as a mother of a child who had CI, have to say. The results of the National Institute of Health (NIH) "double blind" multicenter research project completed in 2008 found that the only proven treatment for CI is office-based vision therapy. Other approaches such as home based remedies or prism glasses are not effective.
Children with CI often have symptoms that can impact reading, learning and attention. After treatment the patient will often show dramatic improvement in reading, learning and attention and concentration for near vision visual tasks.
At Wow Vision Therapy, office-based vision therapy is provided by a Doctor supervised Board Certified Vision Therapist along with vision therapy assistants. Once successfully treated, the results are life long without the need for further maintenance treatment.
Dan L. Fortenbacher, O.D., FCOVD
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