Loree,

        Most optometrist could test this, unless the child's has seious
motor problems. Then it would take what Elizabeth Thiers refers as a
Developmental
Optometrist. The  old Keystone Telebinocular Screening test has a good
subtest for depth perception.

Bobby

>In a message dated 9/21/99 8:08:55 AM Central Daylight Time,
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>
><< No binocular vision=no depth
> perception (the Michael Jackson movie at Epcot did nothing for me).
> My wife Laura, a former special ed teacher, tells me that many kids with cp
> have this additional affliction and they also have problems with spatial
> orientation. >>
>
>How does one determine if a child a problem with depth perception?
>Is it just using a steroviewer and seeing if they can see what you do, or is
>there a big fancy machine only found at med centers?
>
>I had never heard the visual/sound differences. That's something that health
>care providers/researchers wouldn't expect to find and so don't. It sounds
>like more of an ability than a disability issue.
>
>Thanks, Loree in MO