Falls Family Eye Care

Our FNBRF February Business of the Month is Falls Family Eye Care. Located in downtown River Falls. One of the specialty services they are able to offer is patients is Vision Therapy. Learn more here...

Vision and Eyesight are two different things. Eyesight is how well we can read a chart at a given distance (i.e.20/20 vision). Vision is how efficiently and accurately the eyes work together. It includes eye-teaming, eye movement control, focusing between different distances, visual processing and eye-hand coordination. We can prescribe glasses or contact lenses to correct for eyesight. If there is a problem with the visual system, school performance and/or sport performance may suffer. Vision therapy retrains the eyes to work more effectively and efficiently. Many of the signs/symptoms of a vision-related learning disorder are incorrectly diagnosed as ADD or ADHD. A child doesn't typically complain of disorders of the visual system because they don't know any different or how anyone else's eyes are working; it is their "normal". Some common signs/symptoms that parents and teachers can look for include: headaches, sore or blurry eyes, avoidance of reading or near work, taking longer than others the same age to complete homework or assignments, using a finger or object to follow text, repeating or skipping words or lines, higher activity level than others, becoming frustrated with reading or near work. A comprehensive eye exam by a provider trained to look for these disorders is recommended if there is a concern with how a child is seeing or performing in school and with homework/reading.

Falls Family Eye Care

Address: 117 S Main St, River Falls, WI 54022
Phone: 715.425.7228