- What Is Behavioral Optometry
- Why Behavioural Optometry?
- Vision Development.
- Diagnosing the difficulty.
- Treatment Alternatives.
- Types of problems
potentially benefiting from behavioural vision care.
- Vision and Learning.
- The Important Visual Skills.
- Signs of vision problems.
- Interesting facts and figures.
- How
to find someone to help you - a list of members.
- Useful Websites.
- Contacting Us
The Important Visual Skills
The main visual skills needed for learning are:
Fixation: Aiming the eyes or shifting rapidly from one object or another (reading from word to word).
Tracking: Following moving objects smoothly and accurately (catching a ball; keeping your place when on a line.
Binocular Vision: Seeing with both eyes and combining information received through each eye to make one mental picture. Using one eye and mentally shutting off the other is suppression.
Convergence: Turning the eyes toward each other to look at near objects (words at reading distance) and maintaining eye alignment comfortably and efficiently over time (attention span).
Stereopsis: Determining relative distances between objects by looking at them from two different places (the two eyes) simultaneously.
Field of Vision: The area over which vision is possible, including motion, relative position of objects in space, contrast and movement sensitivity in side vision (reading from line to line without getting lost on the page).
Form Perception: Organising and recognising visual sensations as shapes, noticing like and differences (the difference between was and saw, that and what, 21 and 12 and e and o).