How Does Vision Therapy Help Children with Autism?
Vision therapy is a highly effective treatment program aimed at strengthening the connections between the eyes and the brain and improving the visual skills.
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Each program is tailored to the needs of the individual and includes specific eye exercises, as well as the use of lenses, prisms and other therapeutic tools and techniques to achieve optimal results.
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Vision therapy can help a child with ASD to improve their visual processing skills to help them better understand their surroundings and, as a result, feel more safe and secure in their environment. This in turn, will also reduce or even eliminate associated behaviors such as fears and anxiety, and may even help to improve eye contact and verbal skills.
Many vision therapy programs for children with ASD aim to strengthen:
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Central vision
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Peripheral stability
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Efficient eye coordination
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Visuospatial organization
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Visual information processing
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What are yoked prism glasses?
Many vision problems result in visuospatial misjudgments, or the way objects and people move in space.
These lenses ‘trick’ the eyes by subtly moving objects and images to the location in which the brain thinks the image should appear.
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Recommended Reading
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Providers:
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Advent Pediatric Therapy Services
Where: 3376 Linden Street Bethlehem, PA 18017
Call: 610-392-4339
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Good Shepherd
Where: 850 South 5th Street, Allentown, PA 18103
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Center for Visual Management
Offers long distance services
Where: 150 White Plains Road, Suite 410, Tarrytown, New York 10591
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