Posts Tagged ‘vision therapy’
COVD Supports Autism Awareness
A Missing Piece to the Autism Puzzle: College of Optometrists in Vision Development Shares the Visual Link to Autistic Behaviors COVD Supports Autism Awareness The recent report from the CDC presents an alarming 30% rise in the rate of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) from just 2 years ago. Now that the autism rate is 1…
Read MoreKern Autism Network Conference
On Friday March 14, 2014 the Kern Autism Network held it’s annual conference at Hodel’s restaurant in Bakersfield, California. Hundreds of people with autism spectrum disorders, families, and professionals came out to hear about changes to the DSM-5 and to gain insight into help with relationships impacted by Autism. Numerous vendors were on hand with…
Read MoreSusan R. Barry, Author of "Fixing My Gaze" Speaks at TEDx
Susan R. Barry is a Professor of Biological Sciences at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. In this TEDx talk, she discusses her discovery as an adult of how vision therapy could improve her vision. “For most of my life, the last place I wanted to be was an eye doctor’s office. I had…
Read MoreVision Therapy Helps Toddler with Microphthalmia
Written by Shari L. Stamps This is my grandson Nikolai who was born with a rare condition called Microphthalmia where one or both eyes are smaller and underdeveloped leading to visual impairment or blindness. Nik’s left eye is blind and he has limited range of motion… in his right eye which is improving through vision therapy.…
Read MoreOur Vision Therapy Journey – Part 3 of 3
So as we were going through the whole process from the past two posts, we shared what we were learning with friends and family. And we found out that several of our friends – many adult males – said that they remember having the same struggles when they were young…and some of them continue to…
Read MoreOur Vision Therapy Journey – Part 2 of 3
So after all the testing, my hubby and I went to find out the results. The good news was that he had 20/20 vision at all distances. But as we learned, vision for reading & writing has so much more to do than sight itself. Think about all that has to happen for you to…
Read MoreOur Vision Therapy Journey – Part 1 of 3
I will be writing over the next week about our journey with vision therapy. Although we’ve been on this ride for over a year, I hadn’t blogged about it at all because I wanted to protect the privacy of my son’s struggles, and frankly, I wasn’t sure I wanted to if it didn’t work for him. …
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