Interesting NY Times Take on Auditory Processing Problems

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Leonard J. Press on April 29, 2010 at 8:55am

Amen, Rob. We keep referring to this as "The Oprah Breakthrough". Clearly the debate about VT has much less to do with the merits of the issue, as CAP has far less credible evidence than VT. The principal difference is that auditory processing advocates don't have ENTs who feel threatened by them in the same manner in which we have OMDs.

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Dan L. Fortenbacher on May 7, 2010 at 2:53pm

Rob,
Thanks for brining attention to this NY Times article. I find it interesting how the author of this article chose a much more postive sounding (no pun intended) title versus "Concocting a Cure" that was used several weeks ago in the NY Times featuring vision therapy.

Also the article describes how the treatment is intended to train the brain. Again, another clear distinction. After all, we all know that vision therapy is retraining the visual brain, however, it is all too often lumped into an "eye excercise" model when described in the media. Eye excercise is not logical with reading, but training the visual brain absolutely is! With that in mind can we all see the difference?

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