The following skills can be trained with vision therapy.
Bilateral Integration
Bilateral integration is your brain's ability to coordinate both sides of your body smoothly. It helps with activities like walking, running, tying shoes, and catching a ball. Essentially, it ensures good communication between your brain and both sides of your body.
Binocular physiological diplopia is normal, temporary double vision where each eye sees slightly different images, but the brain usually merges them into one clear image.
Biocular rotational pursuits are eye movements where both eyes smoothly follow a moving object, like watching a spinning top without blur or double vision.
Biocular step fusional divergence is the ability of our eyes to move outward to maintain single vision as an object moves closer, preventing double vision.
Biocular vergence facility is our eyes' ability to work together and adjust angles to focus on objects at different distances, enabling effortless switching between near and far objects.
Monocular accommodative amplitude is the maximum distance one eye can clearly focus on an object while the other eye is not used, showing the eye's ability to adjust focus for near tasks.
Visual discrimination is the ability to recognize and differentiate between visual stimuli, such as shapes, colors, or patterns, based on their unique features.
Visual Sequential Memory is the ability to remember and recall a series of visual information in order, like remembering the sequence of cards in a deck or steps in a recipe.
Visual spatial orientation is the ability to understand and mentally manipulate the position and relationship of objects in space. It helps you know where things are, how they relate to each other, navigate, recognize patterns, and make sense of the physical world.
Visual-motor integration is the coordination between our eyes and muscles, enabling tasks like writing, drawing, and catching a ball. It involves using our vision to guide our physical actions.
Binocular Gross Motor Control is the ability of both eyes to work together for large, coordinated movements, like catching a ball or smoothly tracking an object without double vision or misalignment.
Binocular peripheral awareness is the ability to notice objects and movement at the sides of your vision with both eyes open, sensing your surroundings without direct focus.
Biocular gross saccades are rapid, coordinated eye movements that shift our gaze quickly from one point to another, helping us see different objects or scenes.
Biocular Smooth Fusional Convergence is the ability of our eyes to move inward together smoothly and comfortably to focus on a near object, preventing double vision and ensuring clear close-up vision.
Biocular step fusional convergence is the ability of both eyes to turn inward together to focus on a nearby object, ensuring clear and single vision up close.
Biocular suppression is when the brain ignores the input from one eye when both eyes are open, usually due to a significant difference in vision quality between the eyes, such as in amblyopia or strabismus.
Monocular accommodative facility is the ability of one eye to quickly and accurately switch focus between near and far objects, maintaining clear vision at various distances.
Visual memory/recall is the ability to remember and recreate images or scenes from the past in your mind. It's like having a mental picture you can recall when thinking about something you've seen before.
Visual spatial memory is the ability to remember and mentally manipulate the locations and arrangements of objects or landmarks, like recalling where you left your keys or picturing a map in your mind.
Visual-auditory integration is the brain's ability to combine information from the eyes and ears to understand the world, like recognizing a honking car approaching by both hearing it and seeing it in your rearview mirror.