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Your Vision Therapy Centers in Austin and Waco, TX

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Founded in 2004, we are proud to be Austin’s most established Vision Therapy clinic.

Our Vision Therapy clinic will ensure your children enjoy their lives to the fullest with advanced eye care and the smiles and attention to detail we are famous for!

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Vision Therapy and Myopia Management at The Center for Vision Development

What Is Vision Therapy?

Are you a parent concerned with your child’s ability to focus, read, and learn?
Have you experienced dizziness, double vision, and a poorer quality of life after a traumatic brain injury, stroke, or other neurological event?

Dr. Olivia Browne and Dr. Denise Smith offer advanced customized vision therapy programs with the goal of developing and restoring full visual function to children and adults alike.

What Is Myopia Management?

Is your child myopic? Are you concerned your child’s short-sightedness is worsening?

Myopia is not just an inconvenience, but also increases a child’s risks of serious sight-threatening eye diseases later in life, such as glaucoma, retinal detachment and macular degeneration.

Dr. Olivia Brown and Dr. Denise Smith offer Myopia Management options to control or even stop your child’s myopia from progressing. Myopia management may even allow your child to achieve clear vision, without the use of daytime glasses or contact lenses.

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Vision Therapy in Austin, TX

Vision therapy is an individually tailored regimen of eye exercises to improve visual functioning and retrains the brain and eyes to work as a team, to interpret visual input more accurately.

Vision therapy can successfully treat lazy eye (amblyopia), eye turns (strabismus), improve eye focusing and binocular problems, eye movements, visual perception, and can be the solution for patients diagnosed with dyslexia and attention difficulties.

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Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation

Neuro-optometric rehabilitation is an individualized treatment program for those with visual problems caused by traumatic brain injuries, such as concussion and head injuries from sports, and other neurological insults, including stroke and brain tumors.

Neuro-optometry improves the brain to eye communication to improve the visual skills, leading to reduced double vision, dizziness and headaches and improvements in balance, gait, visual information processing, cognitive skills, visual memory, motor skills, and more.

CVD is your Home for Vision Therapy

20/20 vision is only ONE of over 17 vital visual skills required for children to succeed in the classroom.

Children with reduced vision skills may work harder than their peers, yet be unable to achieve the results they seek.

Vision therapy is an evidence-based program to effectively strengthen the specific vision skills impacting your child and has been clinically proven to increase reading levels, enhance comprehension, maintain longer attention spans and even improve sports performance.

See a difference in your child’s school performance!

If your child has been diagnosed with a reading or learning difficulty schedule an appointment for a functional eye exam. Over 17 visual skills will be assessed, including eye tracking, reading fluency, focusing and depth perception.

Vision therapy might just be the solution you have been seeking.

Vision Therapy can improve;

  • Reading and Learning
  • Concentration
  • Lazy Eye
  • Attention
  • Sports

Since our opening in 2004, our practice has grown to offer vision therapy, neuro-optometric rehabilitation, sports vision and myopia management.

We offer a comprehensive approach to vision development, learning disabilities, strabismus and amblyopia, attention deficit disorders, sports vision, myopia, and traumatic brain injury.


The Center for Vision Development is an independently owned private practice, with offices in Austin and Waco, TX we specialize in children's eye care.

We are committed to an open line of communication and positively believe in practicing with a patient-centered approach, we ensure that our patients feel welcome, respected and listened to.


If you have concerns regarding your child's vision, click here to identify the signs that your child could benefit from our comprehensive range of children's eye care.

We look forward to helping you or your child achieve full visual function, which can lead to increased success at school, confidence and a higher quality of life.

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