Why is Depth Perception Important?

July 20, 2017

This video, from the show Brain Games, gives some insight into how the brain turns images into 3D so we can appreciate depth. Many of our patients lack depth perception, or stereopsis. This can manifest as clumsiness, poor spatial awareness, sports challenges, and more. Vision therapy can actually help train the brain to use the images that each eye sees and turn them into a single image with depth. Click here to watch!

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Vision Development Center Provides:

Comprehensive Vision Examinations:
care for all ages

Vision Therapy for All Ages

Treatment for Vision Problems that Affect Learning:
reading and tracking problems, comprehension issues, ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, etc.

Treatment for Binocular Vision Conditions:
diplopia (double vision), amblyopia (lazy eye), convergence insufficiency (near-vision disorder), lack of depth perception (two-eyed depth perception), strabismus (cross-eyed, wandering eye, eye turns, etc.), etc.

Vision Rehabilitation for Patients with Special Needs:
developmental delays, traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, etc.

Treatment for Stress-Related Vision Problems:
visual stress from reading and computers, eyestrain, headaches, blurred vision, vision-induced motion sickness and/or stomachaches, etc.

Sports Vision Correction and/or Improvement:
depth perception, eye-hand coordination, tracking, etc.

Why is Depth Perception Important?

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