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HOW WE WORK

We invest time in understanding each patient's needs through a thorough visual assessment. Our approach explores diverse solutions to enhance the patient's vision based on unique requirements. Recognizing the impact of visual pathways on the brain, we focus on fostering new neural connections through neuroplasticity principles, aiming for meaningful improvements in visual function and overall well-being.

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PROCEDURE

Optometric evaluation

We assess as many visual skills as possible, depending on the patient: Visual acuity, retinoscopy, visuomotor skills, accommodative, binocular, and we adapt to each patient to see at what neurological and developmental stage they are at. 

Motor evaluation

We evaluate the motor status of each patient, assessing standing, walking, head control, balance, and stability. By experimenting with various visual solutions, we determine their impact on these skills and identify the starting point for intervention.

Diagnosis

​After having exhaustively evaluated the visual abilities of each patient, we offer a diagnosis based on how to improve all possible abilities to help the development and learning of the child and how to carry out a multidisciplinary intervention

Visual solutions

We do our best to offer visual solutions whatever the problem, using ocular, vestibular, and occipital input, integrating vision with archaic reflex movements, and acting according to the logic of the developmental moment we find ourselves in.

MAIN VISUAL PROBLEMS WE CAN FIND IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRAL PALSY

  1. Strabismus. Deviation of one or both eyes. Usually have associated severe amblyopia. Three-dimensional vision is severely affected. They may compensate with abnormal head positions.

  2. Deviation of both eyes in the same direction: due to profound brain damage. It is advisable to present the child's activities in the direction of the eyes to enhance their focus of attention.

  3. Nystagmus: oscillatory movement of the eyes due to neuronal damage. Often there is a head position in which the nystagmus is lower and for this reason the child may present torticollis.

  4. Fixation: Cannot hold the eyes. They have a blank stare. They need more time and effort to perform attention tasks.

  5. Convergence: Inability to direct both eyes on close objects. Usually associated with accommodation problems. Not interested in near objects.

  6. Tracking/saccadic movements: Tracking movements are movements made by the eyes to look at a moving object and saccadic movements are movements used by the eyes to jump from one object to another.

  7. Focus: Ability to see close objects clearly. 

Due to the large neural network that the visual system has, the vision of any person who is not blind can ALWAYS improve. And improving vision means improving life.

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