Texas Vision Therapy

03/18/2026

This podcast episode is for parents.

It's 7 PM. Dinner dishes are still in the sink. Your child — the one who can tell you every detail about their favorite netflix series or explain Minecraft for 45 minutes straight — is crying over a math worksheet that should have taken ten minutes.

You've tried patient. You've tried firm. You've tried bribes involving ice cream.

And you're starting to wonder: what am I missing?

I hear this from parents every single week in my clinic. And the answer almost always surprises them.

It's not attitude. It's not a learning disability. It's not bad parenting.

It's the child's visual system — quietly running out of gas by the time they get home from school.

In my newest podcast episode, I break down exactly why this happens, what we actually see when we track children's eye movements during reading (it's eye-opening, no pun intended 😊), and what parents can do when they suspect something is being missed.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5uCT0wsc0yBDJEO41n00FI?si=uYvx-mznQ_e0lVfdHd-gIA

See It Differently · Episode

03/04/2026

Season 2 of the podcast See It Differently is HERE, and this is an episode that every parent needs to hear.

Is this familiar? Your child passed the school vision screening. The doctor said their eyes are fine. So why does homework still feel like a battle every single night? Why does your child hate reading so much?

Here's what most people don't know: the standard vision screening only tests one thing - whether your child can read letters on a chart from across the room. That's it.

It tells us nothing about whether their eyes work together comfortably up close. Nothing about whether they can hold focus for 20 minutes of reading. Nothing about whether words blur, double, or seem to move on the page.

And children don't complain about these things because it's the only vision they've ever known. To them, it's just what reading feels like.

In this episode, I talk about:
👁️ The hidden vision problems that look exactly like ADHD or laziness
👁️ Why "b/d" reversals after age 7 are a signal worth investigating
👁️ The difference between dyslexia and a visual processing problem
👁️ What vision therapy actually is — and what the research says
👁️ The emotional toll on kids who are working twice as hard and falling behind anyway

If you've ever watched a smart, capable kid fall apart the moment a book comes out, this episode is for you, and if this sounds like a child you know, please share this post! It might be exactly what their family needs to see.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/749yr6KFbvpBfpJg6CpXAS?si=lc9QuHUHReC7RXcbWE0hbg

See It Differently · Episode

12/10/2025

Since it's the holiday season, here's our fourth fun activity that you can do with your younger children!

𝐌𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐞

Stand facing your child and make slow movements with one side of your body while they copy using their opposite side, creating a mirror effect (meaning, you're moving your right side and they copy by moving their left side).

Start with simple arm raises, then progress to more complex movements involving moving two things at the same time (such as your right hand and your left foot; they'd have to move their left hand and right foot).

This advanced mirroring activity challenges spatial awareness and helps develop the mental flexibility needed for complex coordination tasks.

12/09/2025

Since it's the holiday season, here's our third fun activity that you can do with your younger children!

𝐉𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐫

Use tape to create ladder-like lines on the floor with different spacing between the squares, then call out hopping patterns like "hop in every other space" or "two hops forward, one hop back."

Progress to more complex sequences such as "jump forward twice with your left foot then backwards once with your right foot" as they master basic patterns.

This develops motor planning, sequencing, and following multi-step directions.

12/07/2025

Since it's the holiday season, here's our second fun activity that you can do with your younger children to help them improve their understanding of lefts and rights!

𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐤

Create a path using green footprints for left foot steps and red footprints for right foot steps. Have your child follow the path by stepping on the correct colored footprint with the corresponding foot.

This provides visual cues to reinforce left-right concepts while practicing alternating foot patterns.

12/06/2025

Since it's the holiday season, here's a fun activity that you can do with your younger children to help them improve their understanding of lefts and rights!

𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡:
Place colorful stickers on various parts of your child's body (left shoulder, right knee, left ear lobe, etc.) and call out commands like:

"Touch the sticker on your left shoulder with your right pinky finger."
"Touch the sticker on your right toe with your left thumb"

Mix up the combinations to create cross-body reaching patterns. This activity reinforces body part identification while practicing crossing midline movements essential for academic skills.

11/04/2025

A week from today Dr Chelette will be giving an introductory webinar about the relationship between attention and vision. Here's the official course description.

For many people with ADHD, staying "focused" can feel like trying to watch a movie that keeps going out of sync, it's effortful, inconsistent, and exhausting. But sometimes, what looks like a "focus problem" isn’t just about not being able to concentrate, it’s about how the eyes and brain are not working together. This talk explores how hidden visual issues like eye teaming, tracking, and focusing difficulties can quietly drain attention and energy throughout the day, in ways that might otherwise have been brushed off as "ADHD-problems". Join us for an eye-opening discussion about how visual overload can mimic or worsen ADHD symptoms, and how small visual inefficiencies can make reading, schoolwork, or screen time feel harder than they should. We’ll share simple clues to look for at home or in the classroom and explain how vision therapy can help the brain work more efficiently, reducing effort, improving focus, and making daily life a little less tiring for both kids and adults.

It's free to anyone to listen to on behalf of the Attention Deficit Disorders Association and the Lighthouse Learning & Resource Company, but you've got to register first!

Here is the registration link:

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: When Focus Isn’t the Problem: The Visual Side of Attention - Chelette. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

10/31/2025

Minions make the worst vision therapy patients!

10/31/2025

On Halloween, the Minions come out to play!

10/28/2025

Houston parents of children with dyslexia - do you know what kind of dyslexia your child has?

Many times your child’s reading dysfunction is not a problem of phonics but instead of difficulty knowing where to look and how to sequence all of the things that they see.

Share this video around because your child’s school certainly won’t make the distinction between a functional vision problem and a phonics problem!

10/22/2025

“It’s alive!”

…but sometimes our two eyes don’t work together the way they should. Doubled vision, a drifting eye, or trouble keeping both eyes looking at the same place can feel frustrating.

This post is to tell you that surgery isn’t the only option if these are problems you're experiencing.

Yesterday, during a session a 17-year-old patient told his mom, “We should’ve come to vision therapy instead of getting surgery first.”

Vision therapy helps retrain the brain and eyes to work together, improving comfort, coordination, and confidence.

So if your vision sometimes feels like it has a mind of its own, it might be time to see if your visual system can be brought back to life, with no bolts required!

10/16/2025

Try not to be frightened by our Halloween decorations when you come in for your vision therapy sessions, we promise they’re fun!