Metone Metronome

Metronome Use in a Vision Therapy Practice.

What is Vision Therapy?

What do optometrists have to do with reading and learning?

Where can I find a local Functional Optometrist?

To learn more, please visit these sites:
www.covd.org
www.pave-eye.com/vision
www.oep.org

METONE has a 20+ year association with developmental optometry. Functional/Developmental optometry has appreciated the value of time/rhythm from gross motor to the saccadic eye movements (small eye jumps) so important to all facets of learning.

But, the most important value in metronome work is the automaticity that metronome work induces. It's what therapists call 'Loading the System."

Loading the system:

1. SLOW DOWN. It's hard to modulate movement.
2. SPEED UP. Can accuracy be maintained?
3. Now add balance, lenses, prisms, filters, which can only be prescribed by a vision specialist.

METONES are durable and affordable enough to send for home vision activities. Also, many practices sell them to their patients as part of their program.

EYES ON TRACK: A Missing Link To Successful Learning is a great book to have in the reception room. Parents enjoy reading this book while their children are attending their Vision Therapy sessions. This easy to understand book helps parents understand the importance of improved visual skills to classroom or home school success!

Here is a small sample of vision therapy applications for a METONE Metronome.
Activities with * are available in EYES ON TRACK: A Missing Link To Successful Learning.

Gross motor:

Intermediate/Fine motor:

EYE CAN DRAW* (an EYES ON TRACK activity)
Motor equivalents on chalkboard
Connect the dots on chalkboard
Templates on chalkboard
Finger lifts

Visual skills, Directionality, Eye-hand: