Dr. Metzger is a developmental optometrist who works with children and adults whose vision restricts reading, learning and daily life.
After three years of teaching science and biology, Dr. Metzger attended the University of Houston College of Optometry. He has practiced a full scope optometry in Hiawatha, Kansas since 1977. About nine years ago, he integrated developmental optometry (also known as functional vision, behavioral vision, vision therapy or visual training) into his practice.
In 2005, he opened an office in Lenexa, Kansas (Kansas City) devoted solely to the use of vision therapy for treating infants, children and adults with vision skills and visual processing needs such as crossed and lazy eyes, learning and reading problems, attention disorders, autism, traumatic brain injury, stroke, permanent vision loss, improving athletic performance and myopia control.
Dr. John, his wife Jean (Chief Vision Therapist) and daughter Caroline (Practice Manager) opened the Lenexa office to give patients new hope and new lives. “Many children and adults have been labeled with names which suggest that they are permanently unable to make improvements, when often they have only an inability and not a disability . We work to restore the inability. This applies to the arena of education, injury recovery and development-related challenges. Vision therapy can also benefit those with average or even superior performance by assisting the individual to their selected goals of “personal best” achievements of human performance,” says Dr. Metzger.
Recommended Reading
Fixin My Gaze, Susan Barry, PhD
When Your Child Struggles: The Myths of 20/20 Vision, David Cook, OD
The Suddenly Successful Student, Hazel Dawkins, E. Edelman, O.D. & C. Forkiotis, O.D.
Thinking Goes To School, Hans G Furth, Harry Wachs, O.D.
Reflexes, Learning and Behavior, Sally Goddard
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