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Prisms play a valuable role in the success of Vision Therapy.  Since prisms are considered to be a medical device, their use should always be monitored and guided by a Developmental Optometrist, or other qualified eye doctor. Prisms can be used in a variety of ways to enhance our Vision Therapy patient’s experience.  Monocular prism jumps, which are accomplished by

Considering the physiological connection between accommodation and vergence, both plus and minus lenses can be used to strengthen accommodative vergence and fusional vergence, as well as increase the overall flexibility between the two systems. Plus lenses decrease the amount of accommodative demand (relax accommodation), thereby asking the patient to stimulate fusional convergence to maintain a clear and single image. Conversely,

By definition, binocularity is the ability to achieve function with two eyes at the same time, which is often measured in three or four degrees of fusion, depending on the respective visual model.  First degree fusion consists of simultaneous perception with the ability to overlap, or “fuse” dissimilar targets.  As an aside, some visual models refer to simultaneous perception as