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Imagine developing three months of improvement in visual skills in as little as two weeks! This is a great option for those with: Vision challenges of lower complexity, or who just want a jump start A busy Fall schedule– school, sports– not a lot of time to dedicate to a traditional vision therapy program Trouble keeping up with prescribed home vision therapy practice Motivation to get their problem solved quickly, such as upcoming SAT/ACT or college The Summer Accelerator Pr

C.O.V.D. presents August is Vision & Learning Month Each year, the College of Optometrists in Vision Development promotes August as Vision and Learning Month. What’s this all about? With school starting soon, it’s an excellent time for an eye exam. After all, up to 80% of learning comes through the visual system. The problem parents and their kids run into is that many kids have “20/20” visual acuity (meaning they can read the smallest letters on the eye chart) yet still have

Image courtesy of adamr/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net. —Amanda Zeller Manley, O.D., F.C.O.V.D. It’s always nice when research proves the benefit of what we’ve already been doing in clinic. For the last several years, as e-readers have become more prevalent, I have been recommending them to many of my patients. In our clinic, we have found that by increasing the font size (which also increases letter/word spacing and decreases the number of words per line), many of our vision therapy

Last night, February 24, 2011, we hosted a mini-symposium at the new and improved Vision & Conceptual Development Center. We had fifteen people in attendance representing a variety of professional backgrounds. Our first speaker was Joseph Manley, MD, discussing the American Academy of Pediatrics position statement on Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia and Vision. Dr. Manley’s premise is that the AAP is ignoring peer-reviewed research and evidence-based medicine in their asserti