Neil Mietus, O.D., eye care in California, vision therapy, optometrists in Santa Barbara, CA, eye doctors

1125 Coast Village Road

Santa Barbara, CA 93108
805-969-2020

In addition to general eye care for the entire family, Dr. Neil Mietus specializes in providing prescriptions and/or vision therapy to help children who are having vision-related difficulties with reading and learning. Dr. Mietus' prescriptions have also given greater reading comfort to many adults.

Dr. Neil Mietus provides:

Treatment for Learning-related Vision Problems, including ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia, Reading, and Tracking Problems, etc.
Vision Therapy for All Ages
Sports Vision Correction and/or Improvement
Visual Rehabilitation for Patients with Special Needs, such as Developmental Delays or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), including Autism, Stroke, Whiplash, CP, MS, etc.
Treatment for Stress-related Visual Problems, including Blurred Vision, Visual Stress from Reading and Computers, Eye Strain Headaches, and/or Vision-induced Stomachaches or Motion Sickness
Treatment for Binocular Vision Conditions, such as Amblyopia (lazy eye), Convergence Insufficiency (near vision disorder), Diplopia (double vision), Lack of Stereopsis (two-eyed depth perception), and Strabismus (cross-eyed, wandering eye, eye turns, etc.)
Contact Lens Fitting and Follow-up, including Bifocal, Disposable and Astigmatism Lenses
Eyewear Designing and Dispensing
Comprehensive Eye Examinations for All Ages, including Infants and Preschoolers

Learning-related Vision Problems in Children

Children with learning-related vision problems rarely report symptoms. They think everyone sees the same as they do.

Vision is more than 20/20 eyesight. It is a complex process involving over 20 visual abilities and more than 65% of all of the pathways to the brain. Nearly 80% of what a child perceives, comprehends, and remembers depends on the efficiency of the visual system.

A child can't learn to read when the words get jumbled up on the page and he or she can't remember or make sense of what was just read.

Current research indicates that approximately 1 out of 4 children and 7 out of 10 juvenile delinquents have vision problems which interfere with their ability to achieve.

Why are learning-related vision problems so epidemic?

Vision is a learned skill, just like learning to walk or to talk. In the past 30 years, many games that encourage the development of good visual skills have been replaced by passive visual activities such as watching television, video, and computer screens.

The average child watches 6,240 hours of television before entering first grade.

Many children are programmed for academic failure simply because their visual systems are not sufficiently developed to cope with the demands of reading and writing tasks at the kindergarten and first grade levels.

"We were told our child had 20/20 eyesight. The teacher thought she just wasn't trying hard enough."

Eight-year-old Brooke passed the 20/20 eye chart test with flying colors. Yet she saw letters move around on the page, words and letters disappear, and the print go in and out of focus. When asked if she had ever told her parents or teacher that this was happening, Brooke replied, "No, I thought books did that to everyone."

There's more to healthy vision than 20/20 eyesight!
Learn more about symptoms of visual problems which
affect reading, learning, school and sports success.

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