Archive for 'Learning Related Vision Problems'
Convergence insufficiency may affect 5-12 percent of American children
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According to the American Optometric Association, 60 percent of students identified as “problem learners” may actually have undetected vision problems. One of those problems could be something called convergence insufficiency.
“They said, ‘Oh he does have this convergence insufficiency in his eyes,’ and I thought, ‘Oh that’s a big name for something, what is [...]
Posted: August 13th, 2009 under Convergence insufficiency, Learning Related Vision Problems, Pediatric Optometrist, Vision Therapy.
Tags: Convergence insufficiency, Eye Disorders
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Think your child has ADD-Attention Deficit Disorder?
By Harley Flego (Parent)
How could my daughter, a bright, articulate, 7-year old who could paint ‘Starry Night’ by Van Gogh, speak two languages and sing with perfect pitch not be able to read? I just didn’t understand.
Chelsea did well in preschool and kindergarten. There was no sign of anything wrong. The eye doctor and [...]
Posted: January 24th, 2007 under Attention Deficit Disorder, Behavioral Optometrists, Blurred Vision, Dyslexia, Eyestrain, Learning Related Vision Problems, Pediatric Optometrist, Testimonials, Vision Problems in Children, Vision Therapist in metro Philly, Vision Therapy.
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Goodbye Frustration
By Eleanor Skale Lowenstein (parent)
I suspected that my daughter Shari was a perfectionist when she was around 5 years old. Not that perfectionism is necessarily a bad thing; I just didn’t like watching the frustration level arise in her every time she sat at the kitchen table and tried to write or do a craft [...]
Posted: January 24th, 2007 under Behavioral Optometrists, Learning Related Vision Problems, Pediatric Optometrist, Sensory Integration, Testimonials, Vision Problems in Children, Vision Therapist in metro Philly, Vision Therapy, Visual Enhancement Therapy.
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How My Child Learning Potential Increased Dramatically
By Kathy Caruso (parent)
My oldest daughter, Anya was adopted from Russia when she was almost 6 years old. She is a great kid who came with a few challenges. She had been diagnosed with a language delay in Russia, and although, she learned to speak English very quickly, she often mixed up [...]
Posted: January 24th, 2007 under Behavioral Optometrists, Cross Eyes, Dyslexia, Learning Related Vision Problems, Sensory Integration, Strabismus, Testimonials, Vision Problems in Children, Vision Therapist in metro Philly, Vision Therapy.
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Our PACE Program and Executive Function
Executive function and attention. The ability to make effective decisions requires integrative and sustained attention. The ability to search memory, to link current sensation to immediate context and connect this experience to past memories, is the quintessential attentional task.[3] Planning and working memory are essential components of executive function.[1,2] The capacity to do what we [...]
Posted: January 9th, 2007 under Attention Deficit Disorder, Learning Related Vision Problems, Occupational Therapy, Sensory Integration, Testimonials, Vision Therapist in metro Philly, Vision Therapy.
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