Amy Thomas, OD, FCOVD is a Board Certified Optometrist Experienced in Vision Development and Rehabilitation.
She was born in North Dakota and joined the Army when she was 17 because she wanted to figure out “what she was missing”. She suffered from vision problems herself but was not aware of how those problems were affecting her until she learned about them in optometry school. It was during her studies at Pacific University College of Optometry that Dr. Thomas discovered Vision Therapy. She noticed that a lot of the patients that went through Vision Therapy read, studied, and interacted with the world just like her. This discovery prompted her to use Vision Therapy on herself to improve her skills.
After optometry school, the first location that she worked was in Heidelberg, Germany for the US Army. From there, she was introduced to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. This is where a lot of the soldiers and airmen with brain injuries from Iraq and Afghanistan were first sent before they could go home. At Landstuhl, she was able to participate in diagnosing and working with vision problems caused by brain injuries. After the rotation at Landstuhl, she left the Army and moved to Tucson, AZ where she set up a Vision Therapy practice of her own. To prepare to be the best Vision Therapy doctor that she could be, she took every course that she could find that dealt with vision development and rehabilitation. She has taken over 600 hours of post-doctorate education.
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