Vision Awareness

is a volunteer group dedicated to the promotion of developmental optometry and vision therapy — often not recognized by mainstream professionals. To that end, we ask you to join us in stating the following, to then be submitted to teachers, legislators and health care professionals:

NO LONGER CAN WE ACCEPT:

1. Being told that we or our children are lying, mistaken or under delusion about legitimate vision symptoms, including double vision, "floating words" or simply an inability to read.

2. That a therapy likely to be effective for these symptoms, vision therapy, is not covered by insurance.

3. That a "developmental" examination and vision therapy are often not discussed as possible alternatives for the vision symptoms of ourselves and our children.

4. That the inability of ourselves and our children to perform due to vision disorders, is summarily dismissed as ADD, dyslexia, or some type of mental disorder — without having given us or them the opportunity for a developmental examination.

5. That "luck" is often the primary factor determining whether we learn about the option of developmental optometry and vision therapy.