Learning Disabilities can be caused by a multitude of conditions ranging from genetics, nutrition, environment, social, array of disciplines and professions represented by these conditions, it is felt that a "multidisciplinary approach" would be the most effective and should be followed in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of learning disabilities.

It should also be emphasized that no one discipline, profession or single educational approach is applicable to all persons with learning disabilities. All disciplines and professions should be considered equally important when dealing with the complex causes of Learning Disabilities. Because of this, Behavioral, Functional, or Developmental Optometrists receives and co-manages patients that have been referred by Primary Care Physicians, Reading Teachers, Special Educators, Pediatricians, Psychologists, Neurologists, Psychiatrists, Audiologists, Speech Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Physical Therapists, and Ophthalmologists.

Learning disabilities are educational conditions and should be the primary concern of the educational professional. Behavioral Optometrists do not diagnose or treat learning disabilities. NeuroVisuopathy(Vision Therapy) is not suggested or prescribed as a treatment plan for learning disabilities. What Behavioral Optometrists do is diagnose and recommend therapeutic regimens of accepted standards of care that deal with binocular visual and/or visual perceptual conditions that may be "associated with" learning disabilities. Visual Therapy is not recommended or designed as a treatment basis for educational learning disabilities. Visual Therapy is recognized form of care to resolve binocular visual and/or visual perceptual conditions that may be associated with a diagnosed learning disability condition.

NeuroVisuopathy(Visual Therapy) is the art and science of developing, enhancing and remediating the quality of visual abilities to achieve optimal visual performance, efficiency and comfort. It is estimated that 87% of learning after the age of six(6) is through vision, 6% auditory, and 7% through touch, taste and smell. Visual Therapy is a universally accepted standard of care, based on medical necessity, that has been shown to be#FFFFFF an effective therapeutic treatment for physiological dysfunction's of the visual system. Any disruption or disturbance within the visual system that could adversely affect that efficiency and quality of how visual information is processed, may also be related to the individual's overall academic performance. Behavioral Optometrists, as such, do not diagnosis or treat learning disabilities. They do treat and/or remediate disruptions, imbalances, and disturbances within the visual system which could be significant contributing factors toward the learning disability condition.