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strategies include the use of lenses, prisms and patching, computer techniques and other equally proven treatment regimens. Another integral part of the Vision Therapy Service is our Learning Disabilities Unit - an interdisciplinary clinical, research and educational unit established to provide diagnostic and therapeutic services to children and adults with learning problems.

Learning Disabilities

Our Mission

To provide diagnostic and therapeutic services designed to meet the needs of children, adolescents and adults with learning related visual problems. Clinical services are provided by an interdisciplinary team of optometrists, psychologists and educational specialists.

Diagnostic Services Include:

Comprehensive Vision Evaluation Visual Perceptual Evaluation

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Clinical Interview

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 Neuro-Psychological and Psycho-Educational Evaluation  Reporting Conference

Individualized vision therapy programs are based on the results of the diagnostic evaluations. Therapy program are directed at improving the visual, perceptual and cognitive skills which impair academic and vocational functioning.

Low Vision Service

Some patients have been told that "nothing more can be done"... that their reduced vision or loss of side vision cannot be corrected by any standard means. They have had to accept that daily tasks like reading, writing, watching television, and walking will be permanently made difficult by their "incurable" low vision. For these men, women and children with congenital or acquired vision loss, there is the Low Vision Service at University Eye Center. Our comprehensive low vision evaluation carefully assesses the patient's current visual status, identifies the goals and visual needs, and designs an individualized rehabilitation program to meet these needs.

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