Functional Vision / Visual Skills Assessment

• Patient History

  • previous eye conditions, general health concerns, medications etc​

• Visual Acuity

  • what's the smallest line of letters you can see on a distant letter chart and close reading material?

• Eye Posture & Muscle control

  • how straight are your eyes when you look into the distance? and when you look at something close to you? 

  • are the 6 muscles around each eye working equally?, 

• Eye Teaming skills

  • can the eyes cross inwards together?

  • can the eyes relax outwards together?

  • do both eyes work together to allow depth perception/3D vision?

• Eye Focusing skills

  • can you make objects/images in the far distance clear?

  • how quickly can you change your focus and make a close object/image clear?

  • at what rate can you switch between the two?

• Ocular Stress Reserves

  • how much visual demand/stress can your eyes tolerate before their teamwork breaks down?​

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Visual Information Processing (Perceptual) Assessment (also available online)

• Ocular Motor Skills

  •  can the eyes track across a page and between objects quickly and accurately.

• Visual​ Motor Skills

  • handwriting​, posture, pencil grip etc.

• Visual Spatial Skills

  • understanding of left and right body awareness, and directionality.​

• Visual Auditory Skills

  • using visualization to aid in sounding out words and blends. ​

• Visual Analysis Skills

  • Visual Discrimination - identifying differences or similarities between objects based on shape, colour, sizing and positioning.​​

  • Visual Memory - ability to recall details of objects, shapes & movements. 

  • Visual Form Constancy - recognizing objects as the same regardless of size or orientation.

  • Visual Sequential Memory - recalling the correct order of a sequence of objects/letters.

  • Visual Figure Ground - ability to locate an object/word when presented with a lot of visual information at once​.

  • Visual Spatial Relations - left/right relationship of objects.

  • Visual Closure - recognizing an object/image when part of the picture is missing​

 

​Parent Meeting (also available online)

• Generally booked after a Visual Information Processing (Perceptual) Assessment with the parent/guardian only, to discuss the child's results and management plans. 

• Parents are welcome to book a Parent Meeting to discuss their child's school performance and/or reports from other Allied Health Professionals to aid in our treatment plans.

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​​Vision Therapy Session (also available online)

• Weekly/fortnightly appointments to carry out vision therapy activities. Once an activity has been taught face-to-face, additional online appointments are available during the week to ensure patient compliance.

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Orthoptic Reviews

• Subsequent/Follow up consultation that follows a period of Vision Therapy and/or Visual Hygiene recommendations. Results are compared to the initial assessment to track changes and improvements.

  • Visual Acuity

  • Eye Posture & Tracking skills

  • Eye Teaming skills

  • Eye Focusing skills

  • Ocular Stress Reserves

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