Why Should I Do Vision Training?

Of all physical actions, 80% are initiated with the eyes. If the eyes are not lined properly or not as strong as they can be, the physical action may not be performed correctly. Many mistakes such as miss-hitting a baseball, dropping a pass in football, safety and academic failures (i.e., reading and writing skills) can be attributed to visual defects.

Some of the skills we work on are:

• Eye hand/foot coordination

• Speed of recognition

• Balance and timing

• Mental training

Enhancement of these skills is achieved through improving the following:

• Tracking - The ability to follow a moving object smoothly and accurately with both eyes, such as a ball in flight or moving vehicles in traffic.

• Fixation - The ability to quickly and accurately locate and inspect, with both eyes, a series of stationary objects, one after the other, such as moving from word to word while reading.

• Focus Change -The ability to quickly look from far to near and vice versa without momentary blur, such as looking from the dashboard to other cars on the street, or from a book to the chalkboard.

• Depth Perception - The ability to judge relative distances of objects and to see and move accurately in three-dimensional space, such as when hitting a ball or parking a car.

• Peripheral Vision - The ability to monitor and interpret what is happening in your side vision while attending to a specific central vision task; the ability to use visual information perceived from over a large area.

• Binocularity - The ability to use both eyes together, smoothly, equally, simultaneously and accurately.

• Maintaining Attention - The ability to keep doing any particular skill or activity with ease and without interfering with the performance of other skills. · Near Vision Acuity - The ability to clearly see, inspect, identify and understand objects at near distances, within arm's length.

• Distance Acuity - The ability to clearly see, inspect, identify and understand objects at a distance of 20 feet those objects normally seen at 20 feet; also called "20/20 sight". This is just one of the visual abilities and not necessarily the most important. People with 20/20 distance acuity still may have severe visual problems.

• Visualization - The ability to form mental images in your "mind's eye"; retain or store them for future recall, or for synthesis into new mental images beyond your current or past direct experiences.