Category: Assessment

AAP Vision Screening Recommendations

Less Than Meets the Eye: When ‘Expert’ Advice is False Economy Pediatricians receive only cursory training in assessing children’s visual function, and only minimal exposure to ophthalmic disease. This is reflected in the visual screening recommendations by The American Academy…

Cover Test

The cover test is a powerful and simple probe into a person’s visual alignment status, or ‘posture’. Download the attached documents to learn how to do a simple cover test sequence. You will learn how to Tell the difference between…

Magno-Parvo Training, Fluency & VEP in Poor Readers

The following is available for viewing and download here: http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/076aa369#/076aa369/25 The Effects of Magno-Parvocellular Integration Training on Fluency and Visual Evoked Potentials in Poor Readers John F. Shelley-Tremblay, PhD, Sarah Syklawer, BS, Ishara Ramkissoon, PhD University of South Alabama Mobile,…

Free Space Testing and Continuous Refraction

Free Space testing and Continuous Refraction Reflecting on the Kraskin Memorial Lecture ICBO 2006 Bryan T Smith BOptom, FCOVD, FACBO (reprinted here with permission of the author) At the 5th International Congress of Behavioural Optometry (ICBO) 2006, Dr. Robert B.…