My Travelin’ Eye by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw
“When I was born, I came out looking both ways.” That’s how Jenny Sue begins her beautifully illustrated children’s book, My Travelin’ Eye. She writes, draws, and colors her “own experience as a seven-year-old with a lazy, wandering eye, glasses, and a patch” into a charming memoir story for children.
Jenny Sue helps kids… Continue reading
Yesterday I shared Susanna’s story. Her photo here shows her wearing prism glasses as part of her home vision therapy. Susanna is currently organizing a northern California strabismus support group. You can read more about this in Susanna’s words below. Just before this went to post, she sent me a note that the support group is not limited to those… Continue reading
Susanna was born with strabismus in the former USSR. The photo below is “of me in 1979 in Russia with a play phone, where you can see that my eyes were really crossed,” she writes. Susanna is a speaker, world-traveler, writer, and more. I’m fascinated with all Susanna is accomplishing in spite of her strabismus, and I asked her to share her story with us. Susanna writes… Continue reading
Holiday gatherings, seasonal job interviews, and Christmas shopping are here again. But what happens when a person with what is commonly referred to as a ‘lazy eye’ enters this mix? Many say adult bullies often whisper and sneer behind their backs, make crude remarks in shopping lines, turn them away without being allowed to interview for a job they know they are qualified to do, ignore… Continue reading
Video games can improve vision in adults with amblyopia by 30% according to a Sept., 2010, news release from the University of California, Berkley.
Research subjects age 20-60 played video games for two hours at a time, for a total of 40 hours over one month. Experiments included one group that played action games without patching, and another group that patched one eye while… Continue reading
