In the recent post, I focused on hyperopia as a physical disability. This notion, that non-blinding vision dysfunction is a disability will be a new idea to many readers. There are many reasons for this and these are worthy of…
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…
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Hi Everyone, As we all know, vision has a keystone role to play in child development, behaviour, and learning. Still, (pathetically) few children are assessed adequately prior to Grade 1. We know that in Texas, Canada (That is, Alberta, with…
A more complicated explanation follows, but simply put, the McGurk effect happens when our eyes tell our ears what they’re hearing. It’s a wonderful demonstration of how vision and hearing are paired in language. In the the video that follows,…
The latest edition of Optometry and Visual Performance (OVP) contains an article I co-authored with Dr. Noella Piquette from the University of Lethbridge on Visual Impediments to Learning. It is an overview of the physiology, politics, and clinical aspects of…
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,…