Success Stories
Sometimes, the most meaningful changes are the ones you experience in everyday life. Hear from our patients and discover how connecting the brain, body, and eyes through visual motor therapy has helped them move, function, and experience daily life in new ways. From enjoying reading more and learning with greater ease to finding renewed success in the sports and hobbies they’re passionate about.
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Will’s Story: Time Well Spent
Will is a twin. There were signs at birth that twin to twin transfusion took place, and he has had struggles ever since. Will was diagnosed with Auditory Processing Disorder: his ears hear fine, but his brain does not know what to do with the information correctly.
Will’s Results: Will has finished therapy and we have seen major improvements. He will now sit and read a chapter book for almost an hour... and be able to tell us all about the story. He brings home math fact papers and he isn’t missing half of them because his eyes couldn’t see they were not finished when he completed it the first time. We still have struggles that are related to the auditory processing, but his eyes are working much better together. Just the other day, he told me he could copy things better from his seat now because he doesn’t see two of them anymore. I never knew he was seeing two of everything and he didn’t realize there was a better way to see it!
Bridget’s Story: A New Outlook
I was that child and adult who struggled to get through any test and to accomplish any task in a timely manner. I always enjoyed reading but it took me so long to read and finish a book, due to rereading some areas and reading aloud to myself. I remember times both in high school and college studying material over and over, feeling so fatigued, and thinking "had I retained any information?"
Bridget’s Results: One thing I had struggled with was being able to concentrate, for example, reading a book in a crowded area. Now I can sit in an airport with people conversing next to me and hundreds walking past, and not care about anything but the characters in my book! It was a very fulfilling feeling that I have never experienced before having vision therapy!
Olivia’s Story: Amazing Progress
We always joked when Olivia was little about how you give her something to drink or eat and it was going to be spilled or how she would trip over nothing. She loved to sleep in. Olivia couldn’t multi-task. When asked to pick up socks and take a cup to the sink. She would do the last thing we asked and forget about the first. We assumed this was just the way she was. We saw Olivia struggling in reading through pre-school and kindergarten. It wasn’t until first grade that we started picking up on more of what Olivia was struggling with. We started seeing her be fidgety and easily distracted when doing homework. She was reversing letters and numbers when writing or reading them. When reading, Olivia would lose her place often being on the line above or below, skip or pause on easy words like a, the, I, and would focus on more meaningful words.
Olivia’s Results: The first progress we noticed with Olivia was not fidgeting at homework time and she wouldn’t get distracted doing homework. Then we noticed she wasn’t spilling her drinks or snacks any more. One day I picked up her assignment book and noticed how her handwriting had gotten better. She was holding her pencil correctly. Her confidence was growing. She was picking up books and reading them on her own. A big one for us was when I asked Olivia to do three things and thought, ‘I just asked her to multitask. She won’t do everything I asked her to do.’ She surprised me and did all three.
…By this point we had already known we made the right decision in calling Vision Development Center but to have it confirmed by two teachers who didn’t know what we were doing for Olivia was amazing.