Dr. Peter Charron moved to Bellingham in 2010 after practicing optometry for 2 years in Rhode Island. He graduated from the University of Delaware with a major in Neuroscience, then earned his Doctorate of Optometry from the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, TN in 2008.
Dr. Charron’s passion and specialty lies in vision therapy. He loves helping patients to develop the visual skill they need to meet their potential in school, at work or in life.
He is a member of many organizations including the American Optometric Association, the Optometric Extension Program the College of Vision Development and the Learning Disabilities Association of Washington. He is an active member of the Bellingham Bay Rotary and is the current president of the Mount Baker Optometric Society.
Patients of all ages can benefit and some of the common conditions that we treat with vision therapy include the following:
Binocular Vision Disorders
Strabismus
Amblyopia
Exotropia
Esotropia
Convergence Insufficiency
Convergence Excess
Divergence Insufficiency
Eye Focusing and Eye Movement Disorders
Ocular Motor Dysfunction
Saccadic Dysfunction
Pursuit Dysfunction
Accommodative Dysfunction
Accommodative Insufficiency
Accommodative Excess
Accommodative Infacility
Visual Processing/Perceptual Dysfunction
Double Vision
Visual Suppression
Letter/Word Reversal Problems
Visual Spatial Problems
Eye-Hand Coordination Problems