When I landed in a doctorate program in developmental optometry, after some years working in public education and tech, I was surprised at what I had found – pleasantly so. Having studied neural science, neuropsychology, and education, my mind and…
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Hyperopia as Physical Disability
Basic farsightedness, or hyperopia, is not the simple opposite to nearsightedness, or myopia. More appropriately, it is the obverse, the complete flip side of a basic principle of human visual function. A recent study confirmed once again that basic visual…
Sight Tests Not Needed
Every now and then, a blog post reveals truths about a writer or a body that was never intended as part of the original goal of writing. Doctors of optometric vision rehabilitation will recognize in the blog post linked below…
The Crisis of Vision in Canada
The title of this piece is deliberately polyvalent – there are many crises of vision in Canada, in the literal and figurative senses. To begin with, while there seems to be an endless thirst for more and more money in…
Gaming in Therapy Part 2
New Technologies Help Extend the Potency and Reach of Vision Therapy – Part 2 The goal of any new tech tool in clinic should be to build on the foundation of known successful in order to improve it either by…
Gaming in Therapy
New Technologies Help Extend the Potency and Reach of Vision Therapy – Part 1 This two-part series considers some of the science behind ‘gaming’ for visual and motor rehabilitation and train. So-called ‘intelligent’ games are now a popular field for…
Does VT Help in LD? – You’re asking the wrong question.
Below is my official response to the Canadian Journal of Optometry to the piece reported back in Vol 76, Issue 2 of this year. http://opto.ca/sites/default/files/resources/documents/cjo_76-2_-_final.pdf It is insufficient to simply present facts to rebut academic attacks, but to confront deep-seated…
Child Vision Management Standards in the United States
From a parent contributor to the Facebook Group ‘Vision Therapy Parents Unite‘. Thanks, Cailee’s Corner for your time in putting this together. Readers are encouraged to seek more specific detail at their own state level. From Cailee’s Corner’s post: “I…
Academic Behaviors in Children with Convergence Insufficiency with and without Parent-Reported ADHD
Academic Behaviors in Children with Convergence Insufficiency with and without Parent-Reported ADHD MD’s will tell you (as of the time of writing this post) that learning disability and reading disability will not be moved by vision therapy. This clever rhetorical…
Pediatrician: Vision Contributes to Learning Difficulties
Vision has traditionally been recognized as the main sense in about 80% of what children do in a classroom. Today, with the heavy reliance on text-based learning, especially that which presented on digital screens at near distances, we find that…