Neuroscience
I get so many hits on my blog for vision therapy, mostly looking for material about Stereo Sue, so I take it for granted that all of my visitors know what vision therapy is. Bad librarian!
It's hard to find a good definition online of vision therapy from a reputable source, in part because it's somewhat controversial. My impression of it, and this is from my own experience, is that it's a way of retraining the eyes and brain to work together to improve vision. It's both a personal interest and a professional one, as effective vision therapy relies heavily on the brain's ability to change at any age (also known as brain plasticity).
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- Vision Therapy, A Personal Perspective
My vision buddy Heather has just started blogging about her experiences with vision therapy. She calls it "One Eyed Girl - My Life with Strabismus: [a] Journal of living with monocular vision and learning through Vision Therapy to use both eyes." I went...
- Scholarly Research On Vision Therapy
There's not much scholarly material about vision therapy, but here are links to searches in PubMed on related topics: convergence insufficiency, including a 2005 article entitled " A randomized clinical trial of treatments for convergence insufficiency...
- About Vision Therapy
Got a few posts from people wanting to know what I did for vision therapy so they could do it themselves. Well, I'm a librarian, not a doctor -- and I started VT over 5 years ago -- so I don't feel comfortable promoting the exercises *I* did....
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Neuroscience
About Vision Therapy, II
I get so many hits on my blog for vision therapy, mostly looking for material about Stereo Sue, so I take it for granted that all of my visitors know what vision therapy is. Bad librarian!
It's hard to find a good definition online of vision therapy from a reputable source, in part because it's somewhat controversial. My impression of it, and this is from my own experience, is that it's a way of retraining the eyes and brain to work together to improve vision. It's both a personal interest and a professional one, as effective vision therapy relies heavily on the brain's ability to change at any age (also known as brain plasticity).
Vision therapy has been used with people with learning disabilities, with traumatic brain injury, and vision problems like strabismus. Athletes have used it to improve their hand-eye coordination (useful for baseball players, for instance). In my case, it was used to correct a convergence insufficiency. It is generally practiced by behavioral optometrists, whose goal is "to develop or improve fundamental visual skills and abilities" and/or "change how a patient processes or interprets visual information" (College of Optometrists in Vision Development [COVD]).
If you're looking for vision therapy treatment, my eye doctor recommends finding a COVD optometrist. Read what the COVD says about vision therapy; you might also be interested in their information about vision therapy for adults.
For More Information, check out these blog posts about vision therapy
If you're looking for vision therapy treatment, my eye doctor recommends finding a COVD optometrist. Read what the COVD says about vision therapy; you might also be interested in their information about vision therapy for adults.
For More Information, check out these blog posts about vision therapy
- Stereo Sue and Me, July 1, 2006
- About Vision Therapy, July 13, 2006
- Scholarly Research on Vision Therapy, July 13, 2006
- Links for Vision Therapy, July 28, 2006
- Vision Therapy, a personal perspective, January 5, 2009
- Artificial Eyesight
New device allows woman to see, even without eyes (recent local TV report) Futuristic System Brings Vision To Blind (2002, ScienceDaily) The visual quality seems rather low, but it's still a promising approach. A glasses-mounted camera transmits...
- Vision Therapy, A Personal Perspective
My vision buddy Heather has just started blogging about her experiences with vision therapy. She calls it "One Eyed Girl - My Life with Strabismus: [a] Journal of living with monocular vision and learning through Vision Therapy to use both eyes." I went...
- Scholarly Research On Vision Therapy
There's not much scholarly material about vision therapy, but here are links to searches in PubMed on related topics: convergence insufficiency, including a 2005 article entitled " A randomized clinical trial of treatments for convergence insufficiency...
- About Vision Therapy
Got a few posts from people wanting to know what I did for vision therapy so they could do it themselves. Well, I'm a librarian, not a doctor -- and I started VT over 5 years ago -- so I don't feel comfortable promoting the exercises *I* did....
- Stereo Sue And Me
My eye doctor was interviewed by Oliver Sacks last year! He wrote about her in the New Yorker! (that's about as close as I'll come to being published in the New Yorker, so I'm rather excited). Here's the deal: Dr. Theresa Ruggiero prescribed...