What is Behavioural Optometry?

Behavioural Optometry is a vision care system based on the understanding that vision is the dominant process in the human species and develops throughout one’s life. Behavioural optometrist use lenses and vision training to facilitate the development of a more efficient and complete visual process. This enhanced visual process allows for improved performance in all areas of life in general movement and co-ordination, in school, the workplace, sports and other recreational activities.

Behavioural optometry defines vision as the ability to derive meaning and direct actions from what is seen as triggered by the process of light entering the eye and impinging on the retina. It explores and examines how the visual input at the eye is dealt with in the brain and how it integrated with other brain processes e.g. Hearing, movement, touch etc.