Family Eye Clinic

Dr. Steven Agnes is a Neuro-Developmental Optometrist in private practice in Fargo ND. He specializes in learning related vision problems, vision therapy, sports visual performance, and enhancement of the function of vision. He has worked with and provided vision therapy to patients for the past 25 years.

Whether you are in need of routine eye care or diagnosis of an ocular disorder, we offer multiple comprehensive exams. Comprehensive eye examination for all ages, including infant and preschoolers; this includes prescription for glasses and contacts. Comprehensive neuro-developmental eye exams for vision and learning difficulties including dyslexia.

Vision therapy can help those individuals who lack the necessary visual skills for effective reading, writing, and learning (i.e., eye movement and focusing skills, convergence, eye-hand coordination, visual perceptual skills, etc.) 25% of disabled readers have poor visual skills.

True Dyslexia is a neurological dysfunction marked by the inability of the language centers in the brain to decode print or to use phonetics to make connections between written symbols and their sounds.However, not all students who struggle with reading suffer from phonological processing problems.

Vision therapy is a highly individualized, supervised treatment program designed to rehabilitate visual skills necessary for visual processing, visual motor integration, and visual perceptual skills, as well as being a treatment for amblyopia that is beyond patching and lens applications. It allows for the retraining of visual functions that have been distorted by brain injury, illness, or lack of development.

Think of your favorite sport or activity; vision plays an important role in your success. Coordination, concentration, balance, and accuracy are a few of the visually related abilities you use during a sporting events. Vision affects your batting average, racquetball score, pass completion, free throw percentages, putting accuracy, etc.