Neuro-developmental delay can impact your child's learning, but can also be strengthened over time.

This is one of the most common questions parents will ask when they first come to see us.    Firstly, eyesight is a ‘precondition’, and...

A new meta-analysis in the journal JAMA Pediatrics finds that more overall time on screens each day, regardless of its quality, is linked to lower language development and we may add vision underdevelopment as well. "What we do see is, as the number of hours increases, so too does the risk for problematic outcomes," said lead researcher Sheri Madigan of the University of Calgary in Canada. "What this work suggests is that the quality of screen-viewing matters, but I think it

Have you or has your child suffered from a concussion? Did you know that concussions can have a severe impact on vision? We would like to...

Like with most therapies, since results are not instantaneous as with physical cures, it is understandable that parents have doubts and...

How long should I or my child spend in front of the screen? This is a question that parents often ask when they see me at Orthovision. At...

I really appreciate my children's school's effort to ease the burden of carrying books to and fro. So now, my kids have most of the...

Miguel - Vision and Retained Reflexes 'After the teachers voiced concerns about my son's physical and psychological development, we...

We have just finished watching the very inspiring talk on TEDxCMU by Stephen Tonti: ADHD As A Difference In Cognition, Not A Disorder...

We all know how important a good diet is for all of us. A few weeks ago we wrote about the importance of the Omega-3 Fatty Acids and now we just stumbled upon this very interesting article. It tells the story of a mother who changed the diet of her son and had very good results with reducing his ADHD through the dietary changes. By Colleen Kimmett STAT May 5, 2017 Dr. Rebecca Carey admits to being a little embarrassed about what her son, Mark, eats every day. Hamburger pat

Messy handwriting can be contributed to many factors: Decreased hand strength, visual motor difficulty, motor planning issues, visual...

That is what a boy said during the assessment of his functional vision at Orthovision. He said that this was making him tired and he...

We just received a lovely feedback from one of our clients today and are delighted to share it with you. It always makes us very proud (and happy of course) when we see that the therapy has yet again shown wonderful results. It amazes us again and again how many of our clients had had their eyes checked before coming to us and 'everything was ok'. One more time a reminder that an eye-check (for acuity / eye-sight) is not the same as a proper assessment for functional vision

This is an amazing study on near work and myopia. In this study, many publications from 1989 to 2014 on the relationship between myopia and prolonged near work were analysed and the results are astonishing… "We found that more time spent on near work activities was associated with higher odds of myopia (odds ratio [OR] = 1.14; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.08–1.20) and that the odds of myopia increased by 2% (OR:1.02; 95% CI = 1.01–1.03) for every one diopter-hour (hr) mo

This is the story about a girl who came to me with a very bad out-drift (divergent strabismus) of her left eye. At the first visit she...

We just read this article on CBS News . It was originally published in August 2015 but hast not lost any of its relevance - in the contrary... we believe that screen time has even increased since then. This is why we share it with you here, cross-referencing the article to some of our own articles on the blog to give you more insight. And we want to start with the words with which the article closes: "[The computers] are very useful, obviously.... We're not saying don't use

Some parents find it cute when their child closes one eye. Very often that is not as cute as parents think, as it could be a symptom of strabismus or a lazy eye. By shutting one eye, a child overcomes difficulties to use both eyes together. Frequently parents ask for help only after a few years when the squint gets much worse. Just recently I had such a 'case' at Orthovision. After having done all the tests on the boy, I talked to the mother. As I wanted her to understand h

Everyone is born with a set of primitive reflexes in order to go through the early years of life , particularly the first year. Primitive reflexes navigate a newborn to look for food (rooting and suck reflexes) or to change the position of the body in order to avoid a danger or to prevent suffocation (Moro & ATNR reflexes). The list of reasons why the primitive reflexes are necessary and essential in the early development is long. You can find more information on the reflexe

Perceptual learning or using our senses to learn about the world around us. It is usually taken for granted that everyone perceives...

If you have read through the older Blogs you know how critical I am towards too much screen-time. However, I think it is also high time...