- Similar to orthoptics
- Series of activities and exercises done to improve nearsightedness


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

Major Types of Vision 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

- Series of activities and exercises done to improve binocular function
- Usually performed by orthoptists, which is a subsection of ophthalmology
- Done to help both developmental visual impairments and visual impairments caused by various brain trauma
- Typically done with children due to the critical period of developing vision

Orthoptics

- Also known as perceptual learning
- Use of various exercises and activities in order to work with the plasticity of the brain in order to help with loss of visual perception
- Although visual plasticity is most often associated with children, recent research suggests that the brain has significant plasticity in adulthood, allowing for therapies like these to work even for adults
- Often used to help with simple tasks, such as contrast and shape differentiation
- Not very common, but the field is growing


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