Vision Therapy
Specific process, function and task-related, visual therapy deals with a variety of processing disorders such as dyslexia and concentration issues.
Find Out MoreWhat is Vision Therapy?
Does your child have perfect vision and still seems to struggle in school? Are you experiencing symptoms like double vision and headaches after reading? These are common issues that can be treated with vision therapy. Microprism Vision is a provider of vision therapy in Melbourne, and we’re here to help you figure out if this is something that could be useful for you or your child.
Eye therapy is a well-researched treatment option used to improve brain-eye communication and visual skills in both children and adults. This can be used to treat a number of different problems that affect people even with 20/20 vision. There can be nothing physically wrong with your vision and you can still lack the visual skills that make things like reading and writing easy. This kind of therapy takes the form of a personalised treatment program that varies greatly in length depending on the individual. It utilises vision exercises along with equipment like lenses, prisms, filters and occluders to improve skills like eye-tracking, focusing, convergence, eye-hand coordination, visual processing speed and more.
Who Can Benefit from Eye Vision Therapy
Eye therapy in Melbourne is most commonly used to help children experiencing difficulties in school improve their academic performance. If your child struggles with reading or comprehension but you’ve been told there’s nothing wrong with their vision and they don’t have a learning disorder, it might just be that they lack the visual skills required to perform well academically. Common signs of a child struggling with their visual skills include reading, comprehension and spelling difficulties, messy handwriting, difficulties concentrating and poor depth perception.
However, adults can benefit too! If you experience symptoms like headaches or tiredness after reading, double vision, poor hand-eye coordination, dizziness, finger-pointing while reading and closing or covering one eye, you could greatly benefit from improving your visual skills. It can be hard to know something is wrong when you’ve never known anything different, but if tasks like reading and writing have always been difficult for you, chances are you could get rid of those struggles with therapy.
Common conditions that can be helped by eye vision therapy include:
- Convergence insufficiency
- Lazy eye treatment
- Cross-eyed
- Visual perception and processing difficulties
Vision Therapy FAQs
Vision therapy trains the brain and eyes to work together more efficiently. It uses a series of customised exercises, often involving tools like prisms, lenses, and computer software, to enhance crucial visual skills such as eye tracking, focusing, and coordination.
Vision therapy is proven effective for a range of visual problems including amblyopia, strabismus, eye movement disorders, and focusing disorders. It is a recommended treatment for anyone struggling with these issues to improve daily visual functionality.
Yes, vision therapy is backed by research and endorsed by leading optometric organisations. It is recognised for its effectiveness in treating conditions like convergence insufficiency and amblyopia.
The duration of vision therapy varies based on individual needs but generally ranges from several months to over a year, with sessions typically held weekly.
Each vision therapy session involves tailored activities to develop and enhance visual skills. Under the guidance of an optometrist, patients engage in exercises that progressively challenge and improve their visual abilities.
While vision therapy does not cure learning disabilities, it effectively treats vision-related issues that may be complicating learning and academic performance. Improving visual function can enhance the overall learning experience.
Patients who undergo vision therapy often experience significant improvements in eye coordination, visual comfort, and the ability to process visual information, leading to better academic performance and quality of life.
Vision therapy typically begins with a comprehensive eye examination by a qualified optometrist who specialises in vision therapy. No referral is necessary; you can contact our clinic directly to schedule an eye test.
Benefits of Vision Therapy:
Realign sensory, muscle and optics for easier reading and comprehension abilities in dyslexia
Help the brain in ADHD to help focus easier and aid concentration capacity
Facilitate localisation of sound in auditory processing disorders
Alleviate some autistic behaviours in learning
Facilitate attentiveness through easier focusing and thereby concentration
Support and redirect visual vagueness and brain function
100-DAY MICROPRISM GUARANTEE
Quantum Photo-Somatics is a dynamic process, activating the system to begin rearranging and realigning itself to a state of ease. On average, follow-up consultations resulting in a change of prescription occur on a 6-monthly basis. In most cases this is a decrease of prescription, allowing the system to continue moving forward. Where a prescription has increased, it is an indicator that more support is required at that moment, and will likely come down when conditions change.
However, if your new lenses aren’t delivering the comfort or improvement you expected within 100 days, we’re here for you. We’ll re-evaluate your eyes and make any adjustments that are required.
In the majority of cases, we find that a brief 15-30 minute consult suffices to determine the issue, and is usually a matter of further integration, or a slight adjustment to the prescription. These consultations are available free of charge within the 100 day warranty period.
Progress and Support: In some cases, changes occuring as a result of the process may temporarily create some discomfort. Different stages of progress may require varying levels of support in order to reach the desired outcome.
Consultation Fees: A consultation fee will be charged for consultations extending to an hour or more, given the extensive work involved.
Discounted Lenses: If the outcome of your consultation is a significant decrease of prescription, new lenses will be prescribed at a 30% discount. Lens remakes under warranty are not honored for obvious improvements.
Warranty Lens Remakes: If there’s another significant shift within the next 100 days, we will remake your lenses free of charge.
As the outcomes of this work are highly individual, the application of this policy will have variability depending on the case, and is continually being adapted as the modality itself evolves.
Experience the Latest in Visual Therapy with Microprism Vision
At Microprism Vision, we work at the cutting-edge of developments in behavioural optometry in Melbourne. Our Docklands clinic takes a holistic approach, making full use of the most current technologies for vision therapy for adults and children. We can prescribe glasses and a range of other therapies to help correct your eye condition. Call us today to book in for an eye exam on (03) 9606 0330. Read More
Are You in Need of Vision Therapy for Strabismus?
Childhood is a crucial time when it comes to how our eyes develop, and it is not uncommon for them to grow abnormally and need correction. Whilst this can be inconvenient in most ways, visible problems like strabismus can have a catastrophic effect on a child’s confidence.
Misaligned eyes can often result in low self-esteem and anxiety, in addition to problems associated with strabismus when it comes to strain and depth perception. Ultimately, strabismus requires psychological care as well as optometry.
It’s for this reason that anyone offering vision therapy for strabismus should have a good understanding of not just how to treat eye misalignment but how to offer pastoral care to those who come to them to help. Those who have grown up with the condition will likely have created all kinds of personal adaptations.
The Benefits of Vision Therapy
Improving your visual skills is likely to have a hugely positive impact on your life. You can improve your academic and professional performance and enjoy hobbies like reading and writing without experiencing headaches and tiredness. If this is something your child struggles with, they’ll no longer be falling behind in school and can start getting much better grades and fulfilling their potential. All of this can be done without taking medications, by completely natural and non-invasive means. For a lot of people, this kind of therapy gives quick results, making a noticeable difference in only a few weeks. One of the biggest benefits of eye vision therapy is that it’s a personalised treatment program designed to treat your specific difficulties, which is why it’s so much more effective than generic approaches. If you think this might be helpful for you or your child, contact a professional like the Melbourne’s optometrists at Microprism Vision. You can also visit this website for more info about vision therapy
Make a Booking Today
If you’re looking for vision therapy in Melbourne, Australia, make an appointment with Microprism Vision optometrist in Melbourne today. Call us now on (03) 9606 0330 to learn more and make a booking at our clinic in Docklands. Alternatively, you can message us online and we’ll get back to you shortly. Read Less
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HERE’S HOW IT WORKS…
Begin With A Quansultation
If you’re ready to explore Quantum Photo-Somatics, the first step is booking a comprehensive Quansultation.
This process is designed to explore your visual experience, perceptual patterns, environmental sensitivities, and the relationship between vision, movement, posture, and spatial awareness.
If you’re unsure whether the methodology is right for you, our team is always happy to guide you through the process.
Explore Your Visual Experience
During your session, we observe how your visual and perceptual systems interact with the broader human experience.
This may include exploring elements relating to visual comfort, environmental processing, posture, movement, balance, spatial awareness, sensory load, and nervous system regulation.
From there, carefully calibrated optical and perceptual inputs may be introduced as part of the Quantum Photo-Somatics methodology.
Experience Subtle Optical Calibration
One of the defining characteristics of the Microprism approach is the extraordinary level of subtlety involved.
Using carefully calibrated lenses, prisms, light, and perceptual integration processes, the methodology explores how even small changes in visual input may influence comfort, awareness, grounding, and environmental interaction over time.
Many people describe the experience as “like a gym for the visual system” — not through force or strain, but through ongoing interaction with everyday life and visual environments.
Observe & Refine Over Time
Quantum Photo-Somatics is an exploratory and highly individualised process.
As your experience evolves, optical and perceptual calibrations may also evolve alongside it.
Many clients return periodically to continue exploring changes in visual processing, environmental comfort, spatial awareness, and overall coherence over time.
