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	<title>Eyes Apart:  Living with strabismus &#187; Just for fun</title>
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	<description>...also known as crossed eyes, lazy eye, wall eyes, squint, tropia, double vision, turned, floating, wandering, wayward, or drifting eyes.</description>
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		<title>New fun video game offers vision training in minutes a day!</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/23/flash-focus-sight-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day is a new video game for Nintendo DS. It&#8217;s designed to improve hand-eye coordination, focus, and peripheral vision through a series of fun games. Flash Focuswas developed in Japan and is distributed there as well as in Europe, the UK, and Australia as &#8220;Sight Training: Enjoy Exercising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stereoscopes, 3-d stereo binocular vision, and Vision Therapy</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/04/14/stereo-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since Charles Wheatstone invented the Stereoscope using mirrors in the 1830&#8242;s, people have been fascinated with 3-dimentional stereoscopic vision and depth perception. The New Yorker published a very interesting article called Stereo Sue about 10 months ago. You&#8217;ll want to read the entire abstract (linked above), but here is a synopsis: According to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strabismus survey: How does strabismus affect you?</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/08/30/strabismus-survey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[See photo credit at end of article] This survey ran from 8/30/2006 to 9/30/2006. Thanks to everyone who completed this survey. If you missed this one, we plan to do another survey soon. The survey simply stated, &#8220;If you have strabismus, please take our Strabismus Survey.&#8221; Here are the questions we asked: Do you have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate squint</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/08/21/chocolate-squint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t you love this squint? It almost looks like a wink, doesn&#8217;t it? Those of us with strabismus often squint in order to see, thus strabismus is also called &#8220;squint.&#8221; I&#8217;ve used this photo before in a post entitled Enjoy your coffee!. But I liked it so well, I wanted to give it a re-run. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;The Eye Patch Kids&#8217; DVD</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/07/22/eye-patch-dvd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children's vision]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I wrote about a DVD called &#8216;The Eye Patch Kids&#8217;. Since then, my 7 year old grandson and I have had a chance to watch the DVD together several times. It&#8217;s full of humor that appeals to a child. My grandson laughs all the way through it! The story is about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One had a squint:  The cross-eyed bride</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/07/17/cross-eyed-bride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the novel Zeno&#8217;s Conscience by Italo Svevo, the fictional Zeno wrote of meeting four sisters whom he considered as possible marriage prospects. However, one had a squint &#8212; another name for strabismus or a crossed eye. Zeno journaled how this one, Augusta, was eliminated from the prospects immediately, because of the squint Yet it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DVD helps kids want to wear eye patch</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/06/03/eye-patch-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After struggling with her two year old son for over an hour, Kelly finally gave up getting him to wear his new eye patch. Then she came up with an innovative idea. She produced a video of puppets wearing eye patches to encourage her son to wear his. Her son now enjoys wearing his patch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live is going to throw you curveballs</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/05/29/curveballs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 18:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspirations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Life is going to throw you curveballs. You can either curl up on the nice leather couch and just tell the rest of the world to go away, or&#8230;.&#8221; Karen Parsegian, who has been blind for four years, finished that sentence by throwing the first pitch for the San Francisco Giants home game in March. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual vision therapy</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/04/20/virtual-vision-therapy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2006 06:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers and internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wouldn&#8217;t it be great if doing Vision Therapy was as fun as playing our favorite computer games? Perhaps that day is soon here! Virtual reality games to treat amblyopia are already being researched at Nottingham University and the results are looking good. Read the full story here: BBC NEWS &#124; Technology &#124; Video games tackle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birds have eyes apart</title>
		<link>http://www.eyesapart.com/2006/03/28/birds-have-eyes-apart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 04:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lois (admin)</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Featured photos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(See photo credit at the end of this article.) Birds have eyes apart. Does that mean they have strabismus? I was curious, so I did some research on what birds see. I uncovered some interesting facts. Most articles I found agree that birds have better visual acuity and precision in detail than humans do! They [...]]]></description>
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