- Orthoptics
- Behavioral vision therapy
- Vision therapy for nearsightedness correction

Major Types of Vision Therapy

- A subset of neuro-optometric rehabilitation
- The process of improving visual skills and abilities through exercises conducted at home and at an office supervised by a vision therapist or optometrist
- Typically assists with developmental visual impairments
- Three major types: orthoptics, behavioral vision therapy, and vision therapy for nearsightedness correction

University of Colorado at Boulder

- Process of helping restore visual defects due to brain trauma
- Rehabilitation for motor, visual, and perceptive disorders through various exercises led by a trained optometrist
- Helps identify impairments caused by brain trauma that may not be easily diagnosed by a simple optometry exam 
- A subset of neuro-optometric rehabilitation is optometric vision therapy

Neuro-optometric rehabilitation therapy

Vision therapy. Vision Therapy - American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. (2020, December). Retrieved March 24, 2022, from https://aapos.org/glossary/vision-therapy 

Vision therapy

Watt, J. (n.d.). Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation - Faqs. Impact Vision Therapy. Retrieved March 24, 2022, from https://www.impactvisiontherapy.com/eye-care-services/neuro-optometric-rehabilitation/neuro-optometric-rehabilitation-faqs/ 

Learn Before

Related

Learn After