Visual Victory Training was created to serve patients suffering with learning-related vision problems. In addition, we endeavor to meet the needs of professionals, such as occupational therapists, and parents, who are interested in learning more about what learning-related vision is, and how they can help children, in particular, develop better visual skills. We are also happy to help those who have lost visual skills due to injury.
Dr. Amy D. Pruszenski, O.D.
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Biography
Amy D. Pruszenski, O.D. is the founder and president of Visual Victory Training, PLLC., established in October 2007, and Harbor Eyecare Center, P.C., a private optometric practice in Portsmouth, New Hampshire since 1998. She and her associates concentrate on creative solutions for patients’ vision lifestyle needs, including vision therapy to help resolve learning-related vision issues, and vision issues due to brain injury. Dr. Pruszenski received vision therapy, herself, for amblyopia and convergence insufficiency, at the age of six.
She considers it her life mission to help others who suffer with similar issues receive the help they need to succeed in life and open up opportunities by improving their visual skills.
Dr. Pruszenski graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science. She graduated from the New England College of Optometry in 1993 and was the first recipient of the Alumni Association Young Optometrist of the Year Award in 2003. She is past president of the New Hampshire Optometric Association, and past Healthy Eyes/Healthy People coordinator for the American Optometric Association (AOA) in New Hampshire. She currently serves on the AOA communications Group as a volunteer, and is chair of the subcommittee working to help school nurses meet the vision and health needs of their students.
In an effort to give back to her community, she served as president of her local Lions Club for three years, from 2001-2004, and still enjoys being a member of the club. The Portsmouth Lions club has recognized Dr. Amy Pruszenski’s dedication to humanitarian and community service by naming her a Melvin Jones Fellow, the highest award given to a Lion. King Lion (KL) and Past International Director Porter Schoff was delighted to present the Fellowship Award to Lion and past president Pruszenski at the club’s annual award ceremony and installation of new officers on June 18, 2008. Many in the community know “Dr. Amy” for her hundreds of volunteer hours with the Lions club, whether working vision-screening clinics at daycare centers, doing eye examinations at Lions eye clinics across the state, organizing fund-raisers or participating in the Special Olympics’ “Opening Eyes” program for the athletes.