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This is Mona,
she is five years old.

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Mona has a visual impairment
called amplyopia or lazy eye

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This means that one eye can
see much worse than the other.

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This visual impairment was discovered during
an eye examination when Mona was four years old.

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Since then she wears glasses

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and an eye patch for a certain time of the day
to challenge and train the weak eye.

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This is called
occlusion therapy or patching.

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At the moment Mona plays the
balloon game at home on the computer. 

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Because patching alone is often not enough,
the ophthalmologist combines it with FAVAS vision therapy 

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Next year Mona will start school and then she wants
to be able to see just as well as the other children

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Because learning to read and write
is difficult with bad eyesight.

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With the Caterna vision therapy
Mona learns seeing the easy way.

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She plays the vision therapy online games
for half an hour every day - for three months. 

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A special moving gradient in the background
stimulates the visual cortex.

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That leads to a stronger
representation of the lazy eye.

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This is fun and helps the lazy eye
to a faster increase in visual acuity.

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This helps Mona to see better.

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And so that it doesn't get boring,
there are nine different games to play.

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Some are very easy
and some are much more challenging.

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It's fun,
and Mona can already see much better.

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I have won!

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Caterna Vision
- play for better vision