Name: New Horizons Vision Therapy Center, LLC
Address: 1004 Quinn Dr., Ste. 3, Waunakee, WI, 53597
Telephone: 608-849-4040

Who we help

Learning-Related Vision Problems

Vision Therapy can help those individuals who lack the necessary visual skills for effective reading, writing, and learning. These include both difficulty with visual skills and visual information processing. Common signs include: losing place on the page, words run together when reading, confusion or reversals of letters, numbers or words, easily distracted or fatigued, low reading comprehension or fluency and poor or unevenly spaced handwriting.

Visual Stress from Reading and Computers, Eye Strain, Headaches & Motion Sickness

21st century life demands more from our vision than ever before. Many children and adults constantly use their near vision at school, work and home. Environmental stresses on the visual system (including excessive computer use or close work) can induce blurred vision, eyestrain, headaches, etc.

Amblyopia (lazy eye), Diplopia (double vision), and Strabismus (cross-eyed, wandering eye, eye turns, etc.)

Vision Therapy programs in many cases offer an alternative to surgery for turned eyes and/or lazy eye (many times with much higher success rates than eye surgery, glasses, and/or patching without therapy.). The earlier the patient receives Vision Therapy the better; however, our office successfully treats patients well into adulthood.

Visual Rehabilitation for - Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Stroke, Head Injury, Whiplash, Cerebral Palsy, MS, etc.

Vision can be compromised as a result of neurological disorders or trauma to the nervous system. The use of special therapeutic lenses and/or vision therapy can effectively treat the visual consequences of brain trauma including with double vision, light sensitivity, visual inattention, loss of peripheral vision, poor visual information processing and difficulties with spatial perception.

Visual Rehabilitation for Special Needs - Developmental Delays, Autism Spectrum Disorders

Often patients with developmental delays or who place on the autistic spectrum have unique visual difficulties that interfere with their ability to learn, grow and interact with other people and their environment. We understand these difficulties and have ways to help.

Sports Vision Improvement

Strong visual skills are critical to sports success. Not much happens in sports until your eyes instruct your hands and body as to what to do! We can measure and successfully improve eye-hand coordination, visual reaction time, peripheral vision, eye focusing, eye tracking and teaming, visualization skills, and more.

Additional Services

Optometric Phototherapy

Not all retinal (light-sensitive) nerves in the eyes serve vision. Some connect the retina directly to non-visual brain centers such as the hypothalamus and pineal gland. These centers influence electrical, chemical and hormonal balances which affect all body functions including vision. Years of clinical application and research have demonstrated that certain selected light frequencies (colors), applied by way of the eyes to these centers, can produce beneficial results. Within the medical community, the benefits of light therapy have been investigated for the treatment of jet lag, PMS, sleep disorders, seasonal affective disorder and conditions related to the body's daily rhythms. In addition, exposure to certain colors has also been found to affect behavior, mood and physiological functions. Controlled clinical studies by Dr. Robert Michael Kaplan and Dr. Jacob Liberman proved that the usual result of phototherapy is improvement in visual skills, peripheral vision, memory, behavior, mood, general performance and academic achievement. They confirmed that large numbers of children with learning problems have a reduction in the sensitivity of their peripheral vision. During and after phototherapy they demonstrated improvement of peripheral vision and visual skills. Control subjects who did not receive therapy showed no improvement in their peripheral vision, symptoms or performance. At our office, a typical phototherapy program is done at home, 20 minutes per day for four to six weeks with progress evaluations every other week. The majority of patients require only one course of treatment, but more severe cases may require additional courses. Phototherapy can be done by itself or in conjunction with an in-office vision therapy program.

Therapeutic and Performance Lens Prescribings

Patients with eye teaming, tracking or focusing problems can see immediate benefit from prescription glasses designed help the visual system perform more efficiently. These glasses are not solely based on eyesight or visual acuity, but instead help place the visual system back into balance. Therapeutic lenses often involve specialized prisms to help improve peripheral awareness. Most eye doctors are not trained in therapeutic lens prescribing and how they can affect visual performance. Therapeutic Lenses can be prescribed separately or apart of a complete vision therapy program. Therapeutic Lenses can help:

Decrease headaches, eye strain and dizziness with reading and writing tasks

Increase peripheral/spatial awareness in patients with AD(H)D, autism or brain injury.

Improve eye-hand coordination

Improve posture, including decreasing head tilts/turns, improve center of balance and decrease perceived shifts in midline.

Meet Doctor Valerie L. Frazer, OD, FCOVD

Before entering optometry school, Dr. Frazer received her BA in human physiology from Southern Illinois University with additional studies in the areas of psychology and literature.

After graduating from Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. Frazer moved to Wisconsin to complete a yearlong residency with a concentration in vision therapy and vision development. Two years later, she achieved her board certification from the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) in these same areas.

The COVD Fellow Certification process serves to identify doctors of optometry

who are prepared to offer state-of-the-art clinical services in behavioral and developmental vision care, vision therapy and vision rehabilitation. Dr. Frazer joins an elite group of Wisconsin Fellows. There are only eight Fellows in the state of Wisconsin.

Dr. Frazer collaborates with optometrists, teachers, occupational therapists and other professionals who treat patients with learning disabilities

autism spectrum disorders and attention deficit disorder. During her residency, she developed a special interest in working with patients who have functional vision difficulties following a stroke or brain injury.

Dr. Frazer served for two years as an adjunct faculty member for Illinois College of Optometry.

She currently serves as treasurer of the Great Lakes Optometric Congress and is a past-president of the Milwaukee Optometric Society. She is a member of the American Optometric Association, Wisconsin Optometric Association, College of Optometrists in Vision Development, Optometric Extension Program Foundation, and the Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Association.

Dr. Frazer enjoys travel and has provided vision exams to rural populations in Costa Rica and Ghana.

She organized and led the Ghanaian mission with the help of her husband, Clay, a former Peace Corps volunteer. She is a regular volunteer for the Special Olympics Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes Program. When not seeing patients, Dr. Frazer spends time with her husband and their sons, Hayden and Avery. Other past-times include gardening, camping and other outdoor activities.

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