Category Archives: Children’s vision
Education in focus
Dr. Wanda Vaughn, a developmental optometrist, completes a target push-up skill with a young student. The exercise trains him to move his eyes inward and stay focused on an object. Mark has been diagnosed with convergence insufficiency, which means the eyes don’t turn in enough to get a clear, single image.
There is a difference between eyesight and vision, according to Dr. Wanda Vaughn, a developmental optometrist with the Arkansas Vision Development Center.
Vaughn said that 20/20 eyesight, which means that an individual can see a certain size letter at 20 feet, is only part of a larger picture.
“While seeing clearly at 20 feet away is important, it actually has little to do with how our vision systems are used while reading,” she said.
Vaughn said, most of the time, children are not aware they are seeing incorrectly, so the condition often goes untreated or even misdiagnosed as ADD or ADHD. Continue reading
No excuses
You’ve probably heard of 19-year-old Kyle Maynard, a congenital amputee who became a champion wrestler. The part of Kyle’s story that struck me most is this:
…his grandmother refused to let other people look away from him.
“She brought me to a lot of grocery stores and she’d set me down in the cart. She told me, ‘You don’t have to be afraid of people. Look them straight in the eye and let them know that you see yourself as normal, and that’s the way that they should perceive you, too.’ “
To me, this grandmother was right on track. Children with a turned eye need to be helped in this way also. Continue reading
‘Mission to Mante’ blog
I found this interesting blog that shares stories of a medical mission from Boulder Community Hospital in Boulder, Colorado, to Mante, Mexico. In blog fashion, the latest item is the first you will see, thus the blog starts with the … Continue reading
Seeing beyond a turned eye
Since my strabismus has been intermittent most of my life, I didn’t see it when I focused on myself in the mirror. I could consciously bring it about. I knew what it looked like. But the mirror didn’t give me … Continue reading
Early history of my eyes apart
When I was nine, I was diagnosed with intermittent alternating bilateral exotropia. In the 1950′s there weren’t as many therapies available as now. Mild prisms were put in my glasses to relieve some of the strain, and I was told to move my finger to my nose and watch it to strengthen the muscles. Continue reading
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