Archive for 'Sensory Integration'
Adult Amblyopes May Benefit from Perceptual Learning
WEDNESDAY, March 5 (HealthDay News) — People with amblyopia have broader bandwidth of perceptual learning in their visual system than people with normal vision, suggesting greater plasticity and wider generalization in this population, according to research released online March 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Chang-Bing Huang, of the University of Science [...]
Posted: March 12th, 2008 under Sensory Integration, Visual Enhancement Therapy.
Tags: amblyopia, 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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