Category Archives: Vision therapy
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
A network cable …er, brain circuit …is unplugged
I’ve seen an icon similar to this a lot lately, yet no cable was unplugged. My computer seemed to be continuously trying to connect to the net. If I managed to get connected it was only a short time before I was disconnected again. After switching cables around to confirm it was not a bad cable, I purchased a new router. My connection is better than ever now.
The little flashing icon reminded me of my eyes…
My Behavioral Optometrist has told me that our brain-eye connection is like a circuit that can sometimes loose connection. One of the goals of vision therapy is to repair the circuit.
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I walk the line
On my first visit for vision therapy, my Behavioral Optometrist had me to take off my shoes and walk in my stocking feet a straight line made from a strip of masking tape stuck to the floor. She assured me it was not a “sobriety test,” but even so I thought this was a bit off the wall! I obligingly did it though — well I tried to do it. I felt clumsy and uncoordinated trying to put one foot in front of the other, keep my big toes on the line, point my index finger to the opposite toe, and keep pace with the beat of a metronome, all the while counting “one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four…” Continue reading
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Strabismus help for those who are older
I often hear people say they’ve been told there is no help for them since they have passed a certain age. The October 2004 issue of JAAPOS (Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus) reports on a study … Continue reading
Strabismus and posture
A former professor at the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, TN, told me of an interesting experience. He said one of his instructors walked around a classroom, observing posture. His instructor could tell just by looking at their posture … Continue reading
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