Orthoptic Training For The Treatment Of Vision Or Learning

Orthoptic training refers to techniques designed to correct accommodative and convergence insufficiency (or convergence dysfunction). Regimens may include push-up exercises using an accommodative target of letters, numbers, or pictures; push-up exercises with additional base-out prisms; jump-to-near convergence exercises; stereogram convergence exercises; and/or recession from a target. In addition to its use to treat convergence insufficiency, orthoptic training has been investigated for treating attention deficit disorders, dyslexia, and dysphasia.