Disclaimer: Below is a database of all Practitioners available within New Zealand for this discipline. A Practitioners presence in this list is not a recommendation from us. Where we have had repeated good feedback, we will show *Recommended* next to that person's name.
Behavioural optometry, also known as “developmental optometry”, is an expanded area of Optometric practice that uses a holistic approach to the treatment of vision problems. Behavioural optometry incorporates various vision therapy methods and is an advanced scope of practice.
Visual Training is devoted to developing, improving and enhancing a person’s visual performance to: - Prevent vision and eye problems from developing
- Develop the visual abilities and skills needed to achieve more effectively at school, work or play
- Enhance visual functioning
- Maintain the most desirable visual status
- Compensate for vision and eye problems which have already developed
Visual Training is a resource to help patients who: - Have difficulty copying information from texts, business reports, diagrams etc.
- Have comprehension problems, difficulty remembering what they have to read or write, read backwards or lose their place when reading printed matter
- Have hand-eye coordination problems in sports and leisure activities
There are a large number of vision exercises to help improve skills in areas related to learning and performance, including: - Vision tracking to aid the eyes moving accurately across the printed page when reading
- Pursuit training to aid the eyes in following a moving object
- Saccadics to aid quick and accurate eye movements from one place to another
- Eye-hand coordination to aid important skills for sports, school, home, play and work
- Vision copying to enhance the visual ability to copy information from something like a classroom blackboard or computer screen
- Visual discrimination to aid in differentiating letters, numbers, symbols and words
- Size and shape awareness to aid in recognising letters, numbers, symbols and words
- Vision and body movements to aid in developing vision as a guiding mechanism in body movement
- Directionality – left/right directional concepts
- Visualisation to enable the individual to visually create or recreate
- Visual memory to aid in remembering what you have seen and increase the ability to comprehend reading matter
Directory (North to South)RecommendedMark Donaldson - Specialist Eye Surgeon The Eye Clinic, Ascot Hospital, Auckland Phone 09 520 9523
Evan Brown - Optometrist & Vision Therapist Howes & Brown Meadowbank, Auckland Phone 09 528 4198
Orewa Optics Grant Dabb 10 Bakehouse Lane Orewa
Visique Mahurangi Vision Centre Philip Ansley 23 Neville St Warkworth
North Shore Optometrists Stuart Warren 117 Sunnynook Road Auckland
Cassidy Eyecare Stephanie Cassidy 84 Gunner Drive Te Atatu Peninsula, Auckland
Visique Papakura Optometrists Bradley Pillay Shop 2, 202 Great South Road Papakura, Auckland
Visique Greerton Optometrists Keith Miller 157 Chadwick Road Greerton, TAURANGA
Visique Greerton Optometrists Brenton Clark 157 Chadwick Road Greerton, Tauranga
Eyes On Victoria John Mellsop 97A Victoria Avenue Wanganui
Visique Wanganui Eyecare Mr John Mellsop 211 Wicksteed Street Wanganui/Manawatu
Shattky Optometrists Hastings Mark Eagle 116 Russell Street South Hawkes Bay
Spec Savers Hastings Niall Paul McCormack 247 West Heretaunga St Hastings
Visique Shattky Waipukurau Optometrists Mark Eagle 36 Ruataniwha Street Waipukurau
Foresight Optometrists Limited Jyoti Hari 164 Main Road Tawa, Wellington
Richard Shanks 1st Floor, The Grand, 16-18 Willis St Wellington
Anstice Optometrists John Anstice 10 Clyde Road, Upper Riccarton Ilam, Christchurch
Lincoln Eye Optometrists Leesa Stuart 32 Gerald Street Lincoln, Christchurch
Rolleston Eye- Optometrists Ms Leesa Stuart 41 Shelley Street Rolleston, Christchurch
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