About Us
Dr. Mark T. Dean from Grand Strand Vision Services is an Optometric Physician who works with both children and adults, who have vision problems that interfere with their ability to read, learn, comprehend, play sports…and even pay attention.
Dr. Dean’s special vision care program helps people a lot. This special care is different than prescribing glasses for eyesight or prescribing contact lenses for cosmetic purposes and different than prescribing medicine for red and sore eyes.
Dr. Dean is also the Sports Vision consultant for the Chanticleers Baseball team.
Our Team
Dr. Joan , O.D.
Meet DR. JOAN , Optician & Vision Therapist
Joan earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Spanish from Goucher College, a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology, with a Minor in Chemistry, and her Doctorate in Optometry. She is NCLE and ABO certified, and is a licensed Optician in SC.
Joan participated in an internship with Dr. Harry Wachs, OD in his Vision Therapy Clinic in Washington, DC, and has almost 10 years of experience as an ophthalmic technician in her husband’s specialty practice, working in retina care and surgery.
Joan looks forward to spending time with her husband, children, and dog. Visiting family, playing golf, tennis, swimming, traveling, and gourmet cooking, are all activities in which Joan participates in her spare time.
“There is so much more to vision than just the Snellen Acuity Chart. The vision process involves a cortical process as well as a multitude of other senses. I enjoy being a part of helping children/students overcome struggles in academics through therapy, as well as administering sports enhancement and visual training to help players play to the best of their ability. Helping patients of all ages work through brain injury, achieve good balance and coordination, and obtain overall good health and fitness are important goals to me.”
Dr. Mark Dean, OD
Dr. Dean graduated from Illinois College of Optometry in 1976 with both a Bachelors of Science in Vision Science and a Doctorate of Optometry degrees. Dr. Dean practiced with his father in Sparta Michigan, where he grew up, a small town north of Grand Rapids. He relocated to Myrtle Beach in 1981 where he currently owns and directs a specialty practice devoted to vision therapy and vision rehabilitation.
Dr. Dean is a member of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD), in 2010 he completed the COVD fellowship process. Members of COVD are optometrists who specialize in working with children and adults experiencing difficulties in the areas of binocular vision, focusing, eye teaming, strabismus and amblyopia and visual processing skill.
Dr. Dean coordinates with parents and educators in writing IEP programs and helping to write accommodations and 504 modifications. He also coordinates sensory integration programs with Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Behavior Medical Specialties.
Dr. Dean is a member of the Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitative Association (NORA). Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation is an individualize treatment regimen for patients with visual deficits as a direct result of physical disabilities, traumatic brain injury and other neurological insults. He provides treatment for people with visual field loss, double vision, visual balance disorders, visual midline shift syndrome, post trauma vision syndrome, light sensitivity and reading disorders.
Dr. Dean is also a member of the American Optometric Association (AOA); South Carolina Optometric Physicians Association (SCOPA); and the Optometric Extension Program Foundation (OEPF).
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