http://www.eyesapart.com ...crossed eyes, lazy eye, amblyopia, wall eyes, squint, tropia, double vision, turned, floating, wandering, wayward, or drifting eyes. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 07:35:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.eyesapart.com/2012/01/24/my-travelin-eye-book-review/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2012/01/24/my-travelin-eye-book-review/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:17:00 +0000 Lois (admin) http://www.eyesapart.com/?p=421 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 … Continue reading →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2012/01/24/my-travelin-eye-book-review/feed/ 0 http://www.eyesapart.com/2011/06/23/new-northern-california-strabismus-support-group/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2011/06/23/new-northern-california-strabismus-support-group/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:24:36 +0000 Lois (admin) http://www.eyesapart.com/?p=392 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. … Continue reading →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2011/06/23/new-northern-california-strabismus-support-group/feed/ 1 http://www.eyesapart.com/2011/06/22/susanna-the-one-eyed-princess/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2011/06/22/susanna-the-one-eyed-princess/#comments Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:59:59 +0000 Lois (admin) http://www.eyesapart.com/?p=352 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, … Continue reading →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2011/06/22/susanna-the-one-eyed-princess/feed/ 1 http://www.eyesapart.com/2010/11/30/adult-bullies-lazy-eye-shopping-lines-job-interviews-holiday-gatherings/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2010/11/30/adult-bullies-lazy-eye-shopping-lines-job-interviews-holiday-gatherings/#comments Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:24:38 +0000 Lois (admin) http://www.eyesapart.com/?p=304 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 … Continue reading →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2010/11/30/adult-bullies-lazy-eye-shopping-lines-job-interviews-holiday-gatherings/feed/ 37 http://www.eyesapart.com/2010/09/28/video-games-improve-vision-in-adults-with-amblyopia/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2010/09/28/video-games-improve-vision-in-adults-with-amblyopia/#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:00:56 +0000 Lois (admin) http://www.eyesapart.com/?p=283 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 … Continue reading →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2010/09/28/video-games-improve-vision-in-adults-with-amblyopia/feed/ 0 http://www.eyesapart.com/2010/07/22/lazy-eye-muscles-revisit-a-challenge-from-jfk-take-the-dare/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2010/07/22/lazy-eye-muscles-revisit-a-challenge-from-jfk-take-the-dare/#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:33:32 +0000 Lois (admin) http://www.eyesapart.com/?p=267 It is said that John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, seemed to have lazy eye muscles, which would sometimes cause one to deviate. Kennedy’s picture at the right certainly bears that out. Yet, he was able … Continue reading →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2010/07/22/lazy-eye-muscles-revisit-a-challenge-from-jfk-take-the-dare/feed/ 9 http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/23/flash-focus-sight-training/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/23/flash-focus-sight-training/#comments Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:51:34 +0000 Lois (admin) http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/23/flash-focus-sight-training/ Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes a Day is a new video game for Nintendo DS. It’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 … Continue reading →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/23/flash-focus-sight-training/feed/ 7 http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/03/trade-life-expectancy/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/03/trade-life-expectancy/#comments Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:10:10 +0000 Lois (admin) http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/03/trade-life-expectanc/ David Marshall writes: Dr. David Guyton at the Wilmer Eye Institue of Johns Hopkins sent this to me along with some other articles, but this one is a very powerful reminder of how crippling strabismus can be to those of … Continue reading →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/11/03/trade-life-expectancy/feed/ 38 http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/25/shadow-of-strabismus/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/25/shadow-of-strabismus/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 05:57:19 +0000 Lois (admin) http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/25/shadow-of-strabismus/ The following item is edited and used by permission from a letter posted by David Marshall recently in our Eyes Apart Strabismus Support group. David wrote: I often wonder if my strabismus is much like a shadow on the wall. … Continue reading →

]]> http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/25/shadow-of-strabismus/feed/ 6 http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/20/social-confidence/ http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/20/social-confidence/#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:22:49 +0000 Lois (admin) http://www.eyesapart.com/2007/10/20/social-confidence/ The following item is edited from a letter posted by shayla last month in our Eyes Apart Strabismus Support group. It’s hard for some people to accept being referred to as having “lazy eyes.” We know that strabismus eyes work … Continue reading →

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