Vision therapy is the term used to describe a wide range of activities used to improve visual skills, and enhance vision.

These techniques include those traditionally known as orthoptics, but go way beyond just exercising eye muscles.

As behavioural optometrists - both Keith and Clare Holland see the visual system as part of the overall sensory mechanism in the body - and the dominant means of acquiring information from the world about us.

Both believe that vision is in part a learned skill developing from birth right through in to adulthood. As such, if we are able to learn how to see, then we should also be able to train such skills, and vision therapy does just that.

The effect of vision therapy can be seen in easier, more productive study and reading, better co-ordination skills, and greater confidence in the world in general.

It is usual to see symptoms such as eyestrain and headaches disappear with training, and to see better place keeping and fluency in reading. Performance in sport is also usually improved - infact, vision therapy programmes are established as a key part of high level sports training programmes.

For a download of the vision therapy leaflet please click here

For information on Johansen Sound Therapy please click here but please note that whilst this leaflet is aimed at adults - we do also carry out sound therapy on children.