Behavioral optometrists use powerful tools to facilitate the development of a more efficient and complete visual process in their patients. This enhanced visual process allows these patients to meet greater and greater visual and life demands with less effort and less stress. The patients of behavioral optometrists perform better in the work place, in recreational activities, and in their personal lives. Behavioral optometrists define vision as the ability to derive meaning and to direct actions as triggered by light.
Vision is much more that simply seeing clearly.
It is the entire process whereby an individual understand what he or she sees. Not only is vision the understanding of that which is seen, but it is also the ability to use this information to direct one's own actions and motor activities accurately and efficiently with a minimum expenditure of effort and energy. Vision judges the relative speeds of the other cars, and alerts the driver to a pedestrian or another car in an intersection, or a door opening from a parked car. Vision is what directs the baseball player to swing the bat at exactly the right moment at exactly the right place in space to make contact and hit a home run. Vision is what is used by students to understand what they read and to direct the pencil across the page to answer an essay test or fill in the blanks on a quiz.