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From: Elizabeth H. Thiers <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: Vision therapy


> Developmental/ Behavioral/ Functional Optometrists do prescribe glasses
and
> do tests.  They take a very functional look at vision not just the
> structural aspects.  They look at aspects of vision such as convergence,
> processing, tracking, etc. and are often involved in prescribing vision
> therapy.  Vision therapy is a series of exercises to help build visual
> skills.
 Neuro-ophthalmologists are doctors and are very interested in functional
> vision.  Not exactly sure about their scope as I haven't worked with one
> but, from what I've picked up they specialize in neurological aspects of
> vision.  For example, they would work with people who've had strokes, or
> brain injury.

Interesting. Alex has been treated and followed for ROP and very
nearsightness.
On the multidisclipanary work ups it has been note by the school psych that
he only attends to images to the right side of the page. The SPL teacher
also noted that he was unable to focus or identify a picture of a large duck
on a page but went on to I.D. the page number at the bottom of the page
which as she said was no bigger than a period. Alex's PMR doctor referred
him to a nuero-opthomologist who dx him with CVI. His regular
pedi-ophthalmologist knew nothing about CVI  and was no help at all.  There
is also some speculation if some of his visual problems my in fact be a
smaller part of word retrieval problems as well. The mind is a wickedly
complicated piece of work!!!!!!!!!
Joanne