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Children’s Eyecare

Pediatric Eye Care—When do children need eye exams? The American Optometric Association suggests that children have their first eye exam at 6 months of age. Kids are kept busy with school, sports, clubs, and social lives, so it’s important for parents and caregivers...

Treatment Tools

Meet Duke, an American Pit Bull Terrier. He is going to help us model each treatment lens we use here at Nashville Vision Therapy. Thanks, Duke! To start us off, Duke is demonstrating his focusing abilities and anticipating a tracking exercise. He gets a little bored...

Work that Peripheral Vision

Hello, readers. Happy Friday! If you remember, last week we talked about peripheral stability. As promised, here are some fun peripheral awareness exercises for home! A couple of weeks ago I discussed building up the vestibular system. One of the exercises I mentioned...

Peripheral Stability

Since Autism Awareness month was in April, I have been doing more research on how vision is affected by the diagnosis. As you might remember in this blog, “The goals of treatment may be to help the autistic patient organize visual space and gain peripheral...

Disease-Spotlight: Color Blindness

Today’s spotlight is not actually a disease, but a disorder most often caused by affected genes on the X chromosome. A quick flashback to the magic that was 8th-grade science: a human male receives an X chromosome from mom and a Y chromosome from dad. A human...