Thompson, Larter, Lee & Associates, Behavioural Optometrists, offer In-Office and Home Based Vision Therapy.

Vision Therapy is designed to help improve:

• Focussing flexibility and maintenance
• Use of the two eyes as an integrated team
• Eye movement efficiency both for reading and sports
• Visual skills necessary for the development of reading
• Spatial skills that underlie Maths
• Eye-hand reaction time
• Sequencing skills
• Integration of Vision with auditory and motor systems
• Sport specific visual skills

In-office Vision Therapy usually runs in 8 week blocks. We also offer home based Computerised Developmental Vision Therapy Program designed to build the visual skills necessary for efficient reading.

Vision Therapy consultations are covered by Medicare. No referral is necessary. There are additional fees for Programming and Equipment Hire.

Optometric Vision Therapy is a program of activities which offers the patients the opportunity to become aware of new relationships in their visual world. The goal is that after vision therapy, the visual system can extract more information, more quickly, with less effort, from less cues. The necessary ingredients for success in such a program are:

• SPATIAL AWARENESS: to train the vision system to lead efficient movement through space
• MOTOR PLANNING: to ensure that movement is efficient and directed
• SEQUENCE: to incorporate the concept that each movement is discrete and meaningful in context
• COGNITIVE LOAD or DUAL PROCESSING: to develop each skill to a level where it becomes automatic.
• VISUAL ANALYSIS: to develop selective visual attention

The most basic aim of therapy is automaticity of focus, eye teaming and eye movement.