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John Metzger, OD
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. In the past five years, he has integrated developmental optometry, also known as vision therapy or visual training, into his practice. Dr. Metzger's office is also a participating site in the State of Kansas Vision Therapy Study. In 2005, he opened a satellite office in Lenexa, Kansas (Kansas City) devoted solely to the use of vision therapy for treating infants, children and adults with visual processing needs such as crossed and lazy eyes, learning and reading problems, attention disorders, autism, traumatic brain injury, improving athletic performance and myopia control. Dr. John, his wife Jean (Chief Vision Therapist) and daughter Caroline Metzger (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 defective or permanently failures 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. |
| “25% of students in grades K-6 have visual problems that are serious enough to impede learning.” American Public Health Association |
| “When vision problems go undetected, children almost invariably have trouble reading and doing their schoolwork. They often display fatigue, fidgeting, and frustrations in the classroom—traits that can lead to a misdiagnosis of dyslexia or other learning disabilities.” American Optometric Association |