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Topic: Vision Therapy
Topic Posted by: S. Deck (sqd630@aol.com )
Date Posted: Sat Aug 16 16:58:04 1997
Topic Description: I am looking for more information and comments about vision therapy.
Posted by: Philip Tomasi
Date posted: Tue Oct 21 22:00:19 1997
Subject: Vision Therapy
Message:
My son now 14 years old is very bright. He has been in resource since second grade and the schools have yet to admit his dyslexia. He suffers from letter reversal. In the last year he has made much progress in his reading but has still not caught up with his peers, creating more of a social problem than a learning problem. A few years back I found an optometrist who immediately recognized and seem to understand and appreciate all of my son's condition. I am sorry to say that for all the money and time myself and my son spent on vision therepy, I felt the results were very disappointing. So disappointed that I didn't even review the results of the before and after test with the optometrist. It reminded me of before and after pictures in a diet commercial. The equipment, procedures and testing seemed a bit quackish. GOOD LUCK
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Subject: Articles about Vision Therapy Research
Reply Posted by: Dr. Stanley A. Appelbaum (DrStrab@erols.com )
Organization: SABB Development Center
Date Posted: Sun Mar 22 15:05:50 1998
Message:
New Research Studies and a position paper from all of the major Optometric Organizations on Attention Deficit Disorder, Dyslexia, Learning Disabilities, and Learning-Related Vision Problems is highlighted in the following two articles:1. 4/24/97 article from The Montgomery Journal, Montgomery County, Maryland on Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and Dyslexia. The article can be found at the following Web site:
http://www.optcom2.com/covd/covd7/page144.html2. 5/7/97 TV Story NewsChannel 8, Washington, DC on ADD and Dyslexia:
"According to the National Institute of Mental Health, five percent of kids are diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder-- or ADD. But, the Maryland State Director of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development says this number is too high. He says the problem in most of these cases is vision. He says the most appropriate treatment is vision therapy... and not drugs such as ritalin. All four of the major optometric associations in the US have since endorsed this position. It will appear in the next issue of the Journal of Optometric Development.More information on the benefits of Vision Therapy:
http://www.pave-eye.com/~vision/
http://www.optcom3.com/covd/index.htmlThe Position Paper on Vision, Learning and Dyslexia can be found at the following Web site:
Posted by: Bob (CEvans@bbs.multiboard.com )
Date posted: Wed Oct 8 18:31:38 1997
Subject: For S. Deck - vision therapy
Message:
Hi S. Deck,Tell me what you mean by vision therapy ... what is the therapy intended to fix?And what is the visual processing problem related to?Regards,-Bob.
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Subject: vision therapy
Reply Posted by: Franne Vanicelli (fvani@juno.com )
Date Posted: Tue Nov 4 11:10:47 1997
Message:
I and 2 of my 3 sons have participated in vision therapy. My oldest took it during the beginning of his freshman year of high school. We had been told he had "input problems", but the psychologists who tested him were clueless about what to do to help him improve. We discoveded this vision therapy through a friend. She is trained in special ed, and 2 of her 6 children were dyslexic. The therapy helped them immensly. So we tried it for our oldest. After 2 or 3 weeks he came downstairs one Saturday morning and said, "Do you realize I've been studying for 4 hours and I didn't even know it? My eyes aren't even tired!"Yes, the exercises looked like hocus pocus. But this doc explained that they were trying to get certain activities into his subconscious, because by the time he concentrated on the physical ACT of reading, he had nothing left over for comprehension. AND IT WORKED! If you're interested in more details, just e-mail me.Last fall my youngest son and I took the therapy. We were told that the therapy wouldn't help him as dramatically, and it didn't. However, the clinic was truthful in telling us this up front. I took it also, and this past summer I beat my whole family in miniture golf 2 days in a row. (In 23 years of marriage I had not beaten my husband once!)I was most impressed that our 3 therapies differed - because we all had different problems. And our treatments differed from those for dyslexics. Maybe we just happened upon a good clinic with an honorable doc, but it was NOT a waste of our time or money.
Reply:Subject: Vision Therapy
Reply Posted by: Dr. Daniel Weinberg (danwein@aol.com )
Organization: Fellow College of Optometrist in Vision Development
Date Posted: Sun Jan 18 19:30:39 1998
Message:
Dear Friends, Vision therapy is a very complex subject. Usually it is misunderstood by both the public and the medical community. Vision therapy in an of itself will help those that have visual dysfunctions, that need attending to. The first area that usually is encountered is the visual efficiency area or general visual skills. Areas such as ocularmotor(saccadic, pursuits), eye teaming(binocular vision), and accommodation are considered as the main thrust of most visual skills problems. A child with a saccadic eye movement problem may leave out small words as he reads or skips words or lose his place as he sweeps from the end of the line to the next one down. A child with a teaming problem may actually see a doubling of some letters making it difficult to determine the exact characteristic of the shape. A child with a focusing problem may find his work blurry and illegible making it difficult to concentrate. From this point the visual system gets more complicated since you have gone beyond the eyes themselves and now are dealing in the area of visual perception or visual processing. Simple reversals have to do with laterality and directionality...vision is only used as a link at this point. Don't confuse vision therapy with the treating of dyslexia. We don't treat dyslexia, and we don't make claims that we do. We treat vision problems that may result in reading difficulties. There is so much information regarding the visual system and its impact on reading that it would do you well to read Ralph Garcia's Book Vision and Reading. Do not be fooled, the visual system has the greatest impact on our learning capabilities. Daniel Weinberg, OD, FCOVD
Reply:Subject: Vision Therapy
Reply Posted by: Erin Hinton (e_hinton@wpusd.k12.ca.us )
Organization: Horizon Charter School
Date Posted: Thu Jan 29 0:46:11 1998
Message:
Dr Weinberg is right on the mark. I've studied vision thearpy in relation to learning disabilities for almost 20 years. I did my masters project on vision training in special education classrooms & wrote a parent version of exercises & activities relating to vision therapy, auditory memory & other topics. I have seen great success. I'm sorry that Philip was scammed. There are clinics out there claiming to "fix it all".
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