Homepage of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development, the national certifying organization of optometrists specializing in vision therapy: http://www.covd.org
Fun site with great eye exercises to promote good visual health: http://www.eyecanlearn.com
Excellent site packed full of great Information on vision therapy: http://www.vision-therapy.com/
Good information source on children's visual health, vision disorders, and vision therapy: http://www.children-special-needs.org/
Optometric Extension Program, a national optometric foundation dedicated to vision therapy training and education: http://www.healthy.net/oep/VISION.HTM
Excellent information on vision and learning: http://www.visionandlearning.org
Parents Active for Vision Education (PAVE), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to informing the public, parents, and teachers about children's vision problems: http://www.pavevision.org
Learning Problems - The Visual Connection: This 75-minute seminar is available on the Internet to educate parents, teachers, schools, and health care providers about vision-related learning problems that are often undiagnosed in children.
Excellent site dedicated to providing information on vision therapy, www.visiontherapy.org, including the following links:
Frequently asked questions about vision therapy: visiontherapy.org/vision-therapy/faqs/vision-therapy-FAQs.html#Q:2
The scientific support for vision therapy: http://www.visiontherapy.org/vision-therapy/vision-therapy-studies.html
Information on Vision Therapy for Health Care Professionals by the American Academy of Optometry and the American Optometric Association: /storage/app/media/02_vt_info_AOA_AAO.pdf
An article about vision therapy from the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine: Vision Training
Web site on vision and depth perception, vision problems, and vision therapy: http://www.vision3D.com/
Online information on vision and vision therapy: http://www.visionhelp.com/index.htm
Information on vision and learning from WebMD: http://my.webmd.com/content/article/11/1668_51242
A discussion of vision development and vision therapy by an educational specialist: http://www.autism.org/visual.html
An Attention Deficit Disorder web site explains how certain vision disorders are sometimes mistaken for ADD or ADHD: http://www.add-adhd.org/index.html
Research on eye teaming disorder and ADD/ADHD: http://health.ucsd.edu/news/2000_04_12_Shiley.html
Excellent annotated bibliography of research regarding the effectiveness of vision therapy: http://www.agape1.com/research.htm
Site dedicated to providing good information on strabismus ("crossed eyes"): http://www.strabismus.org/
Information on vision therapy as the best treatment option for crossed eyes: http://www.sola.com/consumers/conditions/crossed_eyes.shtml
Pharmacists Planning Service (PPSI), a nonprofit informational organization for pharmacists, is striving to inform the public about how undetected vision problems is often mistaken for ADHD: http://www.ppsinc.org/childeye.htm
Web site with good ADD/ADHD information that encourages parents to have their child's vision evaluated to ensure poor visual skills are not contributing to the child's inability to stay on task and pay attention: http://www.addchoices.com/vision.html
Good information on children's vision and vision therapy: http://www.visiontherapycenter.com/
Site dedicated to providing information on vision therapy: http://www.visiontherapy.org/
Information on rehabilitation of injury-induced vision problems: http://www.nora.cc/
Photographs of children in therapy with good information about visual disorders: http://www.lifetimeeyecare.net/therapy.html
Great information on the visual processes involved in reading: http://members.aol.com/twoeyedox/vision.htm
Good visual demonstrations showing how children with poor visual processing skills see: http://members.aol.com/twoeyedox/EyeVisInfo.htm
Vision Therapy Optometrists Online: http://www.optometrists.org/public_eye_care.html
A learning disabilities specialist discusses how poor visual perception can affect learning: http://parentpals.com/gossamer/pages/Detailed/890.html
The results of one school's collaborative effort with a developmental optometrist to provide vision therapy to students with vision problems and the improvements in the children's reading compared to students who did not receive vision therapy: http://www.successlink.org/ppss/element/pp_blue.asp http://www.successlink.org/ppss/ppss_detail.asp?ID=40
A discussion from the National Center for Learning Disabilities on the ways visual processing and perceptual deficits can impede learning: http://www.ncld.org/LDInfoZone/InfoZone_FactSheet_VisualPD_Details.cfm
LD Online offers a discussion about the ways deficits in visual information processing can affect learning: http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/process_deficit/visual_auditory.html
A discussion of how poor visual oculomotor skills contribute attention problems and impulsivity: http://www.yourfamilyclinic.com/adhd/vision.html
A discussion of how visual processing deficits are often mistaken for ADD from the mother of a daughter with visual perceptual deficits: http://www.womenof.com/Articles/fc061499.asp
An independent, non-profit educational cooperative discusses the vital role vision plays in learning: http://www.prel.org/products/paced/mar02/pc_vonoelhoffen.htm
Excellent discussion of the role vision plays in the classroom published by Restored Hope Remedial Services:
Educator's Guide to Classroom Vision Problems: http://www.wkbt.com/global/story.asp?s=1784655&ClientType=Printable
Good information on infants and children's vision: http://www.hollywoodvision.com/html/children_infant_vision.html
Great site devoted to raising cerebral palsy awareness as well as other birth injuries: cerebralpalsysymptoms.com
InfantSEE™ is a free public health program for children during their first year of life: www.infantsee.org