THE ROLE AND SCOPE OF VISION THERAPY IN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE
THE ROLE AND SCOPE OF VISION THERAPY IN EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE

Author(s): Violeta Šlekienė, Loreta Ragulienė
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Scientia Socialis, UAB
Keywords: science education; vision; vision therapy
Summary/Abstract: The efficiency and quality of the vision is one of the key challenges of a modern life. The goal of the paper is to reveal a need of vision therapy and preventive vision improvement in a general education school. The aim of vision therapy is to improve vision and efficiency of the vision and to find ways to further improve quality of vision. Vision therapy is usually individually tailored to each and every person in order to clarify the issues. Worldwide, doctors caring for patients’ vision, lots of attention devote for improvement of eye prophylaxis treatment during special training. Vision therapy is used to address these issues: insufficiency of accommodation, problems of presbyopia and amblyopia, convergence or divergence, dyslexia, after Strabismus surgery and others. Permanent eye exercise not only improves vision, but also prevents the eyes from harmful effects of environment.

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