To understand vision therapy, it is essential to know the difference between "sight" and "vision".

• Sight: synonymous with visual acuity (ability to see clearly), occurs only in the eyes.
• Vision is the brain's ability to extract, process and act on information reaching the retina.

For example, sight allows us to "see" the number plate of a car at a great distance, but vision is what allows us to interpret the speed at which the car is approaching, to predict the distance it is going to travel and to calculate the time it needs to reach the point where we want to cross the road. the time it needs to reach the point where we want to cross the road. The number plate is visible, but the speed is not, to build the mental image of a vehicle's speed we need visual information. to build a mental image of the speed of a vehicle we need visual information.

Vision Therapy is a speciality of optometry that is responsible for improving all visual skills with different techniques, depending on the type of problem, with the aim of achieving maximum efficiency in their performance and thus be able to perform their daily tasks as comfortably as possible. The aim is to achieve maximum efficiency in their performance and thus be able to carry out their daily tasks as comfortably as possible.

Observation by parents and teachers of the child's visual habits is sometimes decisive in detecting possible vision problems. The sooner the first visual check-up is carried out, the better!