One of the presumed advantage of patching an eye was to allow the "lazy Eye" gain fixation and become as active and strong as the "good eye'. The term Lazy Eye is not only wrong but inaccurate. Studies have shown that patching an eye for two hours is equivalent to patching for a full day. The eyes are meant to function together so rather than patch we should be training both eyes together through Vision Therapy. Patching an eye can actually do more harm than good. If you hav

According to the College of optometrist in Visual Development, there are 17 visual skills needed in reading, writing ,sports and in life. The 17 skills are listed below 1) Eye Movement Control: The ability to move both eyes together to point at an intended target or follow along a path, like a line of text 2) Simultaneous Focus at Far: Forming a clear image of something in the distance 3) Sustaining Focus at Far: Keeping an image of something in the distance clear 4) Simu

Vision is more than sight and is a learning process. From the moment we are born we try to grasp meaning to everything around us. A baby crawling picks objects from the floor and tastes them and tries to understand the new object by its taste and also looks. Alas! a name is given to an object and now he knows what to call it. The child has used his primitive reflex, sight, sound, awareness of where the object is to identify the object and name it. Vision is more than identif