Our View From The Top,
A School Intervention Project,
For Vision Therapy in CT Schools and Everywhere

Our Mission:

Our View From the Top empowers parents, teachers, and students to overcome visual barriers to learning through public awareness and intervention in Connecticut and everywhere.

Our Purpose:

Right now:

• 1 in 4 children is struggling with a visual issue that is negatively impacting their ability to learn effectively.

 

• While it is estimated that approximately 80% of learning occurs visually, the standard school vision screenings test only for distance vision, while most learning occurs up close.

 

• These issues are often not detected because they are not properly screened for at school, the pediatrician’s office, or the eye doctor’s office.

 

• Many children with undetected visual difficulties are placed in Special Education or put on medication for behavioral issues.

 

• A major cause for low self-esteem among children has its basis in poor academic performance.

Call to action:

• With appropriate education of our teachers, principals, school counselors, and school nurses, we can better identify children with potential visual issues early.

 

• Early detection and intervention are crucial to eliminating these barriers to allow for more efficient learning.

 

• Many of these visual issues can be corrected with glasses, behavioral changes, and/or vision therapy for children.

What is possible:

• Children learning free from visual barriers

 

• Teachers able to educate without physiologic obstacles

 

• Decreased spending on already financially strained Special Education Departments

 

• Education dollars able to be reallocated to areas like the arts

Our Team:

Our View From the Top (OVT) is made up of volunteers from helping professions including: Doctors, Vision Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Teachers, Counselors, Psychologists, Nurses, Tutors, and many others in Connecticut and everywhere.

– Program Director: Corinne Williams, MS Ed
– Medical Director: Juanita Collier, MS, OD

 
 
“Our View From The Top, Overcoming Visual Barriers To Learning”
 
 
 
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