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American Conference on Pediatric Visual Impairment:

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What do you know about Fragile X Syndrome?

I took some time off after VT and am again back up on the horse, doing exercises daily. I feel my eyes are a bit stubborn of late, not moving enough in the sockets, so I'm trying hard not to turn my head when I follow object. I'm working with my swinging ball, following it aptly with my eyes and not my head and am continuing to work with close up depth, using a corrugated cat scratching block with three pencils sticking at various distances, allowing me to change my targets easily. I can X…

If you live in the Chicago-land area, you need to check out The Angel Food Bakery. This bakery/restaurant is under the fine culinary skills of one of my Beloit College Alum colleagues, Stephanie Samuels...and  is AWESOME!…

I spent an hour and a half with Dr. Hemmig last week. Good news!  I can put the little girl in the house!  I did very well with the testing to see if I can fuse.  He was encouraging - in fact, he said that if I did not have the scar tissue problem with my left eye, I would be three steps down the road in Visual Therapy.  So, he referred me to Dr. Ludwig; I will see her on March 5, so that means I am facing another surgery, which I will gladly do.  The tough part is I will have to pay for it…

I posted this on my opinion blog, MainosMusings. What do you think?  Your feedback is welcome....…

“….The discontinuation of Optometry, the Journal of the AOA, is a sharp stab-and-twist to the gut of our profession.….The primary benefit of Optometry, the Journal of the American Optometric Association is not in educating optometry, but in educating the world about optometry…..Our AOA Journal is like Sunday Go To Meeting clothes. We wear them seldom, relatively speaking, but they are very important in showing our respect for tradition, very important when we…

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NewsMakers is a column dedicated to the College of Optometrists in Vision Development and the many activities of its membership. If you have done anything of note (lectured, published, or been…

...The most recent issue of Optometry & Vision Development (OVD), the official journal of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development has…

I'm not always in stereo but I am in quite often and can put myself in easily just viewing 3-4 anaglyph photos with red/cyan glasses. That said, I've been working a lot with anaglyph images since my sessions ended. What I'm beginning to experience is greater depth with many of the photos.

Earlier viewing of anaglyph photos brought me an awareness of the levels within the photos - the things in front, middle and back. Sort of like cheaply converted 2-D movies when converted into 3-D,…

Optometry & Vision Development Volume 42, No. 4, 2011 now online (http://www.covd.org/Home/OVDJournal/OVD424/tabid/344/Default.aspx). Check out...3D in the Classroom: See Well, Learn and all the other articles in this issue and past issues..

Today, I had an appointment with a new doctor to discuss Vision Therapy.  I experienced a “first” in all of the eye exams I have had over the course of my life: this doctor spent an hour and a half with me, unhurried, in no rush, with complete interest in me and my eyesight history.  He questioned me extensively about my strabismus and how it has affected the course of my life, including the surgeries and my feelings about them.  He took copious notes and began the process of getting to know…

"What makes you see through your eyes?

Is it your attentiveness?  Does your brain direct the show?

Looking and seeing deeply is an attribute of Consciousness. 

Therefore, it is Consciousness that is needed to explain 

the Science of  VISION. It is our consciousness that defines

our way of perceiving. 

The joke is, Science has yet to explain…

This is a video my students and I did to demonstrate how to perform an accommodative rock procedure with +/- lens flippers. You may use this freely for non-commercial purposes only.

Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO, FCOVD-A…

I just saw this interview that Stephen Colbert did of neuroscientist David Eagleman on the Colbert Report.

Neuroscientist David Eagleman likens the brain to a neural Parliament with different political parties that are battling it out to steer the ship of state.

If a normal brain, pre-vision therapy, is already arguing like parliamentarians, then it's no wonder than those of us in vision therapy to develop binocular vision experience many moments of confusion. All those…

For those of us who have struggled with our brain's rewiring via vision therapy, watch ABC’s Nightline special on Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford’s incredible progress using melodic intonation therapy to regain speech after a bullet passed through the left side of her brain, causing her to lose expressive speech.
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I might have a degree of night blindness. That's not surprising given that my 60th birthday is fast approaching (next month). A young ophthalmologist noted that I have a very slight yellowing to my eyes that may contribute to the night vision problem. He then said I would likely need cataract surgery in my mid to late 60's... not sure if I believe that one. At any rate, I do wonder if I will lose peripheral vision as a result of such surgery and, in turn, could that compromise my ability to…

I use coloured photographs on the iPad for training fusion as a way to engage the patient more on an emotional level. When they perceive depth, I invite them to talk about the places in their life where they wish to have more depth and fulfilment.  I first published the photos in my book Conscious Seeing  The…