Vision Therapy
Many children with developmental delays or reading difficulties may benefit from vision therapy, as can many adults who suffer from vision problems related to stroke, vertigo, work accidents, or mild brain injury.
Even if an individual has 20/20 eyesight, he or she may have visual deficits. Visual skills are what we use to fully perceive and make sense of what is seen. Very few eye doctors have the specialized training needed to detect and to treat vision-related reading and learning problems.
Our visual therapy program is administered by occupational therapists (OTs) and certified occupational therapy assistants (COTAs). The vision therapy program is supervised by a prescribing Optometrist.
Cognitive, language, and aural rehabilitation is simultaneously conducted by a team of speech and occupational therapists.
Evaluation and treatment is provided at Advent using the State of the art equipment.
Speech Therapy can help with the following areas of speech and language:
- Articulation – the ability to make clear sounds
- Fluency – the flow of speech (an example of dysfluency is a stutter)
- Resonance – refers to the volume and quality of speech as affected by air flow through the oral and nasal cavities
- Recpetive language – the ability to understand/receive language or communication
- Expressive language – the ability to express language/communicate
- Pragmatic language – social language skills such as body language and taking turns in a conversation
You or your child may be referred for vision/aural therapy if he/she:
- Has a learning disability
- Is diagnosed with dyslexia
- Has a vision development lag
- Experienced a TBI & Concussion (Traumatic Brain Injury from trauma or stroke)