People with Special Needs can have minimal to significant challenges in one or more of the core Binocular (two eyes) Visual Areas:

• Visual Motor Guidance – visually-directed gross (big muscle, such as throwing a ball) and fine motor (small muscle, such as writing) skills

• Ocular Motility (eye tracking) – the ability to follow with the eyes (with only minimal head or body movement) a moving object in visual space, or the ability to follow letters in a word or words on a line of print

• Accommodation (eye focusing) – the ability to see near-centered objects, including words on paper or in a book, with normal acuity (clarity). Eye focusing difficulties will cause near-centered targets to appear blurry

• Vergence (eye coordination and eye alignment) – the ability to have both eyes aligned (aimed) at the same point in visual space. Eye coordination and eye alignment difficulties will cause Diplopia (double vision) or Suppression (turning off) of the vision in one eye to prevent double vision.

• Visual Information Processing and Visual Perception – the ability to understand, get meaning, recall and remember visual data

A Functional Vision Evaluation, including eye refraction (determination of possible spectacle correction) and eye health needs, provides insight into the visual status and Diagnoses to guide treatment options.