From Sight to Insight: Understanding Functional Vision

From Sight to Insight: Understanding Functional Vision

How Skills Beyond Clarity Help Our Children See Clearly

When considering the importance of our body’s senses, the sense that is arguably valued the most is vision. Those who have vision cannot imagine a life without it. Those who lose quality of vision, through age or trauma, realize that they took it for granted. Others still, who may have clear sight but do not adequately utilize their vision in their everyday lives, may or may not even realize that they have a visual deficit: in this case, a functional vision disorder.

This June, during which we acknowledge Child Vision Awareness Month, we take a closer took at functional vision impairments and how they can negatively impact children from a very young age. Read on to learn more about this condition and strategies in which to improve it.