Excel Institute, Traverse City

11/23/2022

Christmas is coming and shopping for most of us starts this Friday! Get your kids all geared with up these visual motor toys to assist with overall learning and problem solving!

Best toys and activities for ocular motor development. A child with poor ocular motor and visual skills can have trouble reading, writing, tracking and may write their letters backward.

10/31/2022

Happy Halloween with some humor from your favorite vision therapy providers 🤓🎃

10/19/2022

Patient spotlight (and shameless promoting!)

Erica has been in vision therapy for some time and just achieved something H U G E…

Yes! Her childrens book has been published and is available for purchase. This sweet story of the cat Juliette is the perfect bedtime story for kids of all ages. We are so incredibly proud of you Erica!

Buy her book here, a perfect Christmas or birthday gift!

My Cat Juliette https://a.co/2VjOZU6

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My Cat Juliette

10/14/2022

Happy vision therapy week to our excellent provider group here at Excel Vision Institute!

Dr. Mark Noss
Brooke Ensing, OTRL
Kari Hallead, COTAL
Amanda Perez, COTAL

We are honored to work with our patients and help your world come into focus 🤓😎🤩

07/14/2022

Happy vision therapy graduation to this incredible young lady. So much heart and soul went into her rehab program and it is bittersweet to see miss Abbi graduate. Time to take on the world!

Abbi graciously shared a message with future patients:

"My name is Abbi. I went to eye therapy at Excel too. It is kinda weird. You do all these things that don’t seem to help, but they really do help. There are many fun and strange projects that you work on. I did it to help me read and see better after I hit my head in basketball. It affected many things like driving, looking back and forth during class, and how much light my eyes could handle.I noticed my homework was taking much longer and was much harder than previously. Eye problems are more than just blurry words. I had trouble with my eyes working together both up close and faraway. I didn’t know anything was wrong with my eyes for a while after I hit my head, but I started to see all the things I used to be able to do that I couldn’t anymore. After working on my eyes for a few months, I could tell that it was making a difference in my eyesight and ability. It helps retrain your eyes. It will probably be hard and kinda frustrating at first, but don’t worry it gets better. Doing the exercises and practicing helps a lot. It will start to be a part of your routine after a while. If you take the time, it will help you in the long run. It starts to be fun seeing all the progress you make and seeing the skills you have learned/relearned in everyday life. Going to Excel will be worth it, but you can’t just show up. It helps if you are ready to learn and are open to new things. Don’t worry about messing up, everyone does. It will be kinda weird seeing how you do in the beginning, but you can see just how much you can progress. I would recommend going to eye therapy to anyone unsure about their eyes. You become close to your eye therapists and other staff members. As you progress, you will start to feel better. At times, it may feel like you aren’t progressing, but don’t worry it will happen soon enough. Progress happens in small steps and big steps. Most of the time you can barely notice progress. Keep going!"

03/29/2022

Please consider making a donation for a friend of Excel Institute.

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03/17/2022

Our patients are the “sweetest” 🥰

Happy St Patrick’s day everyone!

03/03/2022

Please help us make our friends at Full Spectrum Eye Care the "Red Hot Best" eyecare in Traverse City! Follow the link below and scroll down to "optometrists" vote for Bekah 'Noss' Lynch and Full Spectrum Eye Care and Pediatrics! Thank you!

From the best restaurant in Northern Michigan to favorite cross-country ski trails, nominate your Up North favorites for Red Hot Best 2022!

10/11/2021

We are so ⭐️proud⭐️ of this therapy graduate right here! Terri had difficulties reading when she came to us, felt like her eyes were jumping on the page, was skipping lines, using her finger to track her place, and overall was tired when she tried to read.

After a lot of hard work and consistency with her vision training Terri has officially completed a 400+ page book and is back to calling herself a “reader!”

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09/05/2021

👀 Just look at one of the many conditions our team at Excel Institute can work on to bring you more functional and effective vision!