What is Vision Therapy

Vision Therapy uses a number of therapeutic activities that allow the visual processes to normalise. The Aberdeen and Shaylers Vision Centres view vision as a multifaceted concept.

Vision therapy requires developing the visual 5 "F's", Fields, Fixation, Focus, Fusion and Flexibility.

Focus not only requires the ability to see things clearly at all distances, but being able to shift focus quickly and hold the image clearly without effort.

Fixation, how we aim and move eyes to the same place at the same time without effort.

Fusion, using the two eyes at the same time to give depth, 3D perception.

Fields, our ability to process information in our periphery which allows us to direct and aim our eyes and process and understand what we are reading.

Flexibility, the ultimate use of the aspects if Focus, Fixation, Fusion, Fields and the integration of the mental processing of reading, comprehension, memory, balance, rhythm, timing directionality and integration with the other senses.

The practice has available over 500 different activities working on these different areas of vision.

Geoff Shayler and Bill Hay were among the first UK Optometrists to train in the use of Syntonic Phototherapy to develop the functional visual fields.

Geoff Shayler integrated the use of Kinesiology to speed eye movement development and left / right brain integration.

The majority of children with learning difficulties undergo a therapy programme consisting of 20 sessions of 1 hour spread over 2 weeks. More ingrained problems such as "lazy eyes" , "squint" and nystagmus or motor development difficulties may require more sessions