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Above: Patient wearing computer glasses designed to reduce eye strain and fatigue By Anita Tieu, Doctor of Optometry Senior Intern How are video games and electronic devices integrated into our lives?    With the numerous electronic devices available, video games have become a large part of entertainment for adults and...

  Above: one of our patients playing a game called Multi-Matrix. It trains eye-tracking, eye-hand coordination and visual motor integration.  Summer is half way over, is your child ready for school in September? One of the fundamental skills for a child's development is called Visual Motor Integration. Visual Motor Integration...

    By: Helen Mach and Debbie Luk Does your child read like this?  Reversal of letters, difficulty with decoding the alphabet, and difficulty with recognizing words and letters are common characteristics of a disorder called dyslexia. Dyslexia is the most common learning disability that affects 5 to 10 percent...

"We look with our eyes. We see with our brains. We understand with our minds." ~ Harry Wachs, OD   Pretend you are a grade one student looking at some shapes on a page called ‘words’ that are made up of ‘letters’ The letters are clear, but what is the...

Intermittent Exotropia (outward eye turn) can develop at any age. When the eye is turned, it can be a cosmetic concern. Further, it can result in double vision, words moving on a page and lost of depth perception. Depth perception is the ability to judge the distance of an object, and...

Written by: Theola Li, Univeristy of Waterloo Forth Year Optometry Intern We are all aware of what being lazy means; unwilling to wake up in the morning, watching TV instead of doing work, staying at home to eat instead of going to the gym. But what does an eye being...

  by Leonard J. Press, O.D., FAAO, FCOVD It isn't news to many of us that a significant number of students struggle needlessly with undetected or untreated learning problems.  But when an organization with the prestige of the American Academy of Optometry publishes a Position Paper on the subject, people will...

For Immediate Release — Wednesday, October 23, 2013  U of L paper indicates visual impediments a key factor in childhood learning and behavioural difficulties  A University of Lethbridge researcher is calling for more comprehensive, and compulsory, early childhood vision assessments to help reduce potential learning and behavioural difficulties that affect...

This is a must watch for educators and parents! This video demonstrates some of the reasons why vision screening by a school nurse or pediatrician can be misleading. There are ~20 visual skills that the standard eye chart does not test. Even if your child has 20/20 eye sight, they...

Vision Problems and Special Needs Children Dr. Debbie Luk and the vision therapists at the Vision Therapy Calgary have experience working with children with autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, sensory integration disorder and other conditions. Roughly 40% of our patient population has some type of special issue. Dr. Luk is...