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Re-educate your children vision with visual therapy

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Our children visual abilities are developed in a similar way as when we learn to speak or to walk. That is, we must also learn to see in order to be able to interpret and understand the world. In fact, the 80% of the information that children receive at class is through the eyes, but to have a 100% visual sharpness does not guarantee a good vision. The definition of good vision does not only mean to have physically healthy eyes, but also to be able to identify what we are seeing, process and understand it. For this reason, glasses or contact lenses are not the solution if the problem has to do with visual accommodation, coordination between the eyes or perception of the surroundings, among others. In this point, the visual therapy allows us to solve the problem.

What does visual therapy mean?   

The visual therapy or training is composed of specific exercises customized in order to re-educate vision and make it more efficient. This is achieved correcting and improving the functional and perceptual abilities (link: https://bioptic.net/en/visual-therapy )The exercises evolve and vary in difficulty as the therapy goes on and adapts to the problems and objectives of each child.

How does it help our children?

Starting from these exercises children establish new connections or nerve cell schemes that will help them to process correctly the visual information. All the things learned with this therapy can be applied to their daily life, developing a strong visual system without any effort. Just in this way they will be able to concentrate on the purpose and not on the way: to learn instead of being observant if they see in a proper way or not.

How can we detect that children need visual therapy?

If you detect more than two of the following behaviours in your children, it is recommended to consult an optometrist:

– Reads very slowly,

– Does not understand what he/she is reading,

  • Uses the finger while reading,
  • Transposes letters and/or numbers when reading and/or writing,

– Confuses right and left,

– Skips words and/or lines while reading,

– Has inadequate postures when reading or writing,

– Complains of blur vision,

– Gets very close to the paper while reading and

– Half-closes the eyes when looks at far distance.

When did you last review your children vision?

The 5 advices to come back to school that no list includes

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The vast majority of advices lists to face coming back to school with success do not include the visual health between the most important things to take into account. But this means the key to fight the school failure, since the 80% of the information explained at class enters through the eyes. Do you want to know all the advices in order to take care of your children vision when coming back to school this year?

 

1. Less video games, tablets and mobile phones and more homework

During the summer holidays, some children have spent a lot of hours every day in front of electronic devices. Experts recommend that, once the course has started, parents should agree with them a restricted usage of these devices and also to give more importance to homework. Screens as well as books must be situated 35-40cms. distance from the eyes.

 

2. To establish a good space to study

Any part of home does not mean the best place to study. Parents must provide their children with an appropriate and fixed place, with comfortable chair and table and an adequate temperature. In order to take care of their vision, the room must have natural light, whenever it is possible. The artificial light will be used with the main purpose to avoid shadows. The lack of light can lead to visual fatigue, that is why the chosen room to study should have a lamp that gives off natural light as well as an adjustable table-lamp.

 

3. Vision needs to rest while studying

It is suggested to rest the vision from the books or screens every 20 minutes. To have a rest does  not mean that children have to stop studying, but simply by doing the following exercise: to raise the sight and look at some far-off object during some seconds before concentrating again to look at the near material they are working with.

 

4. Does your child turn his/her head when reading or writing?

This is one of the signs that can tell you that your child suffers a visual problem. Also: to blink constantly, to approach too much to books while reading, to half-close the eyes, the readness of these or the rejection to reading.

In some cases, these visual problems will be corrected by means of glasses or contact lenses, but if the problem is of vision accommodation, of eyes coordination or of perception of the environment, among others, it is the Visual Therapy that can solve the problem. This therapy consists of various customized exercises that reeducate the sight of children bettering and correcting the visual and perceptual skills.

 

5. The annual revision, in september

To visit the optician-optometrist in order to check the children vision, must be done, at least, once a year. If you have noticed some of the symptoms mentioned above, september is the best moment to carry out the revision. The school learning is directly linked to the vision and hence when a visual problem appears, children are not able to develop their highest potential.