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An Important Public Health Issue: Ignored

If you read Maino D. The binocular vision dysfunction pandemic. Optom Vis Dev

2010;41(1):6-13. at http://www.covd.org/Portals/0/Editorial_BinocularPandemic.pdf you know that undiagnosed and untreated binocular vision problems are of epidemic if not panedmic proportions. Please send my editorial to all you… Continue

Added by Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO on March 28, 2010 at 12:57pm — No Comments

NEUROADAPTATION AND PERCEPTUAL LEARNING - Part 4

The Neuroadaptation and Perceptual Learning model discussed by Dr. Kershner is a perfect example of behavioral ophthalmology derived from behavioral optometry. The optometrists Ciuffreda, Levi, and Selenow should be appropriately credited for introducing this model, 19 years ago in their seminal, co-authored book on Amblyopia. In selling their concept to colleagues, Kershner (as well as Drs. McDonald and Lindstrom, the two ophthalmologists cited at the end of the article as having a financial… Continue

Added by Dr. Leonard J. Press on March 28, 2010 at 11:55am — No Comments

Webinar a Huge Success!

375 registered for the Free March…
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Added by Dr. Lynn Hellerstein on March 28, 2010 at 11:38am — 3 Comments

NEUROADAPTATION AND PERCEPTUAL LEARNING - Part 3

Now to continue the thought about Ophthalmology re-inventing and re-packaging optometric vision therapy. Dr. Kershner writes in the March 2010 issue of Review of Ophthalmology:



I’m always astonished when someone insists that visual neuroadaptation doesn’t occur; or that if it occurs you

can’t influence it; or that…

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Added by Dr. Leonard J. Press on March 27, 2010 at 9:27pm — No Comments

NEUROADAPTATION AND PERCEPTUAL LEARNING

In numerous editorials I and others have predicted that at some point our ophthalmologic colleagues would "discover" vision therapy and claim it for their own, conveniently overlooking any references to the role of optometry in the field. Ladies and gentlemen, that day has arrived with the publication of the March 2010 issue of the Review of Ophthalmology:…



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Added by Dr. Leonard J. Press on March 26, 2010 at 10:24am — 2 Comments

Is the patient wearing too much minus?

Had an interesting case yesterday.

Added by Roberto Kaplan O.D., M.Ed. FCOVD on March 25, 2010 at 12:30pm — No Comments

IS OPHTHALMOLOGIC TREATMENT DRIVEN BY FINANCIAL INCENTIVES?

One of the "controversies" that allegedly exists in the optometric prescribing of vision therapy and "low power lenses" is that our professional judgment is clouded by financial incentives. That claim, leveled by critics of vision therapy, has never been proven and remains anecdotal. Our principal critics are, of course, ophthalmologists who seem not at all bothered by the paradox of using anecdotal claims to criticize us because we supposedly rely on anecdotal evidence.



I couldn't… Continue

Added by Dr. Leonard J. Press on March 24, 2010 at 5:47pm — No Comments

BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS

Sheena Iyengar is a Professor of Business at Columbia University and has RP which left her with only light perception by the time she was in high school. Her odyssey toward attaining an undergraduate degree from the Wharton School of Business and a doctorate in social psychology from Stanford is detailed in her new book, The Art of Choosing. As this remarkable book shows, she perceives much more than light.





Daniel Kahneman and Amos… Continue

Added by Dr. Leonard J. Press on March 17, 2010 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Vision Therapy Webinar!

Please join me for the next See It. Say It. Do It! Webinar on March 17, 2010 at 7PM MDT…


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Added by Dr. Lynn Hellerstein on March 17, 2010 at 8:23am — No Comments

The Binocular Vision Dysfunction Pandemic & Israeli Optometry

Optometry and Vision Development Volume 41, No. 1, 2010



go to http://covd.org/Home/OVDJournal/OVD411/tabid/296/Default.aspx to read the articles.



OVD is a peer reviewed, open access journal that provides immediate access of its articles to you at no charge.



Editorials

The Binocular Vision Dysfunction Pandemic

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Added by Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO on March 12, 2010 at 8:07pm — 2 Comments

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Added by Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO on March 11, 2010 at 5:47pm — No Comments

A blind man shocks researchers with what he sees.

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Added by Adia Mcduffey, COVT on March 11, 2010 at 4:34pm — No Comments

Vision Issues After Brain Injury: BrainLine Talks with Dr. Gregory Goodrich

BrainLine sat down with Dr. Gregory Goodrich to talk about the problems with vision that can arise after a traumatic brain injury. Dr. Goodrich is the supervisory research psychologist assigned to the VA Western Blind Rehabilitation Center in Palo Alto, California. He also serves as the program coordinator for the Optometric Research Fellowship Program at the VA hospital in Palo Alto.

BrainLine: How common is it to have vision problems after traumatic…

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Added by Adia Mcduffey, COVT on March 11, 2010 at 4:28pm — No Comments

POWERFUL COMMENTARY ON VISUAL ASPECTS OF DYSLEXIA

Many of you know Fernette and Brock Eide, physicians and authors of "The Mislabeled Child". They spoke at the COVD meeting a few years ago, and continue to champion our work. Check out their website on the Dyslexic Advantage, in particular the following blog:

http://dyslexicadvantage.ning.com/profiles/blogs/dyslexia-and-visual-processing#comments

Added by Dr. Leonard J. Press on March 6, 2010 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

Alice in Wonderland- the latest 3-D movie to help find children with Stereo Blindness...Dr. Hillier Inteview



Avatar 3-D has swept the world as the biggest movie of all times largely due to the new 3-D technology used in the production of this block buster film. Yes, 3-D movies have been around for a long time, but what makes Avatar unique is the combination of poloroid and analglyph technology in conjunction with an elaborate CG imagery and the new Fusion High Definition Camera system invented by James Cameron, writer and director of Avatar.

This new…

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Added by Dr. Dan L. Fortenbacher on March 1, 2010 at 1:00am — No Comments

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