December 2009 Blog Posts (21)

Sue Barry's Guest Editorial: Thwarted At Every Turn

The January 2010 issue of Optometry (Journal of the AOA) has an outstanding guest editorial by Susan ("Stereo Sue") Barry entitled "Thwarted at every turn". We plan to use it as a patient handout for every parent or adult patient) who wonders why they were either not told about vision therapy, or dissuaded from considering… Continue

Added by Dr. Leonard J. Press on December 28, 2009 at 6:27pm — 1 Comment

There are several new posts on COVD's blog!

http://covdblog.wordpress.com/

Added by COVD on December 26, 2009 at 2:13pm — No Comments

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST

Thought some of you might be interested in the following Review of Optometry article:

http://www.revoptom.com/content/c/17451/

In particular, the concluding paragraphs:

Looking back a month later, there is much to be thankful for. Although we will never know for sure what caused Leora’s preseptal cellulitis, the Streptococcus that was running around her house is a… Continue

Added by Dr. Leonard J. Press on December 25, 2009 at 10:29pm — 1 Comment

Vision Therapy on CNN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hugQkdKX5Rs

Added by COVD on December 22, 2009 at 9:09pm — No Comments

More at Mainos Memos

Check out the following on MainosMemos:

Suppression and Reading

Convergence Insufficiency..

Conlon Survey and Academic Problems

Dyslexia and Fixation

Optometric Vision Therapy Helps Children With Math Problems

Autism Numbers Are Rising. The Question is Why?

Prevalence of Down Syndrome Among Children and Adolescents in 10 Regions of the United States

Visual Outcome in 879 Children… Continue

Added by Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO on December 22, 2009 at 7:25pm — No Comments

Identify Binocular Vision Disorders: Cover Story

Millions of children and adults suffer unnecessarily from binocular vision disorders because they're underdiagnosed. Rectify this by following these four steps.

See article in December's 2009 Optometric Management by DOMINICK M. MAINO, O.D., M.ED., F.A.A.O., F.C.O.V.D.-A.,

Please send this link out to all non-Peds/BV docs....hopefully they will start diagnosing and referring patients so… Continue

Added by Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO on December 22, 2009 at 5:00pm — 10 Comments

COVD Tour de Optometry Visits 12-09!

http://tinyurl.com/yehgy4l

Added by Dr. Lynn Hellerstein on December 22, 2009 at 11:44am — No Comments

Vision Therapy In Discussion Forums

Vision Therapy is now being mentioned quite often in discussion forums such as the one below. If you are interested in keeping on eye on what is being written, you may do so by creating a "google alert" for keywords like "vision therapy" and "convergence insufficiency". You may even want to take it to the next step and reply to a question or a posting.…

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Added by COVD on December 22, 2009 at 11:01am — 1 Comment

Vision therapy helps children with math problems!

There’s a great new article by Dr. Sidney Groffman, Professor Emeritus at SUNY College of Optometry in the Dec. 2009 Optometry and Vision Development Journal. Dr. Groffman states, ”The incidence of individuals with a mathematics learning disability is between 6-7% of the population.” Dr. Groffman reviews a particular ability called subitizing, which is a precusor of math skills. Dr. Groffman helped to develop a subitizing vision therapy computer program that has been designed and based upon… Continue

Added by Dr. Lynn Hellerstein on December 20, 2009 at 10:03pm — 1 Comment

The Revolution is Near: Integrative Pediatrics and Pediatric Optometry

http://digital.modernmedicine.com/nxtbooks/advanstar/opt_200912/#/8

Added by Dr. Leonard J. Press on December 19, 2009 at 8:42pm — No Comments

Is Vision Therapy being used enough to help deal with the epidemic of Nearsightedness?

So a report on a NEI study proudly announces that ‘Nearsightedness’ is on the increase from 25 percent in the 1970’s to a staggering 41 percent this year.” What else is new? We saw similar statistics in the Far East years ago.

Although the study did not deal with the causes, genetics was cited. What caught my attention was the word… Continue

Added by Roberto Kaplan O.D., M.Ed. FCOVD on December 16, 2009 at 4:47pm — No Comments

What's new at MainosMemos

Check out any and all of these at http://www.MainosMemos.blogspot.com

ICO Alumni Look at This and be Very Proud!

ICO Faculty & Program Achievements and Activities

Dr. Mitch Scheiman the next ICO Dr. & Mrs. Dominick M. Maino Visiting Professor

Dr. Mitchell Scheiman's visit as the next Dr. and Mrs. Dominick M. Maino Visiting Professor starts June 22nd at ICO. His main responsibilities will be… Continue

Added by Dominick M. Maino, OD, MEd, FAAO on December 15, 2009 at 11:52pm — No Comments

NORA/ ICBO Student/ Resident Grant announcement

NORA/ ICBO Grant Program Announcement

To all:

The Neuro Optometric Rehabilitation Association (NORA) and the International Congress of Behavioral Optometry (ICBO) have a very exciting opportunity to offer to full time students and residents interested in vision training and rehabilitative vision care. Most traditional curriculums offer very limited exposure to working with brain injured and stroke patients, however, there are many

private practice doctors… Continue

Added by Sarah Lane on December 14, 2009 at 5:11pm — No Comments

Binocular Rivalry: A Layman's View of Stereo Sue and of the Optometry/Ophthalmology Divide

I had the pleasure of reviewing Fixing My Gaze for each of our ophthalmic journals - JBO, OVD, OVS, and Optometry. In one I wrote that although the emphasis of the book is on stereovision, vision scientists and others in the ophthalmic field will be surprised to read of Sue's perspective on how her visual problems impacted her early lackluster academic performance.

Not we, of course, but our rivals tend to trivialize the impact of vision on learning. In search of something else on… Continue

Added by Dr. Leonard J. Press on December 13, 2009 at 1:26am — No Comments

Direct Link to Office Based VT Page for CI on AOA Website

Here is a direct link to the AOA website for office-based treatment of convergence insufficiency:

http://aoa.org/x13917.xml

The page has a download-able version of the laminated insert card in last month's AOA News, that contains the PLRG (penlight red green) procedure, and the CISS (Convergence Insufficiency Symptom Survey).

While we all recognize that there is much more to VT than CI, this will provide a comfortable framework… Continue

Added by Dr. Leonard J. Press on December 11, 2009 at 5:05pm — No Comments

Americans consumes 34 gigabytes of content and 100,000 words of information per day.

Soon we are going to need 6 eyes! Read more

Added by Roberto Kaplan O.D., M.Ed. FCOVD on December 11, 2009 at 3:13am — No Comments

Dr. Michael Kotlicky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JaWOXGjKMw

Added by COVD on December 10, 2009 at 12:19pm — No Comments

I am honored and excited to share the following information written by my colleague, Dr. Carole Hong!

Dear Colleagues,

I’m so excited about the plethora of excellent new books related to vision therapy that we now have at our finger tips. Eye Power, By Stan Appelbaum, Fixing My Gaze, by Sue Barry, My Kids are Nearsighted Too…by Nicholas Despotidis, and See It Say It Do It! by Lynn Hellerstein are just a few. I’d like to share what we have been doing in our office to… Continue

Added by Dr. Lynn Hellerstein on December 10, 2009 at 10:22am — 1 Comment

Read Dr. Dominick Maino's latest post on COVD's Blog

http://covdblog.wordpress.com/

Added by COVD on December 6, 2009 at 7:16pm — No Comments

ICO -Tour de Optometry 2009

I had a great time last night presenting to about 100 students at ICO the COVD Tour de Optometry...Football to Neuroscience - 2009 VT Hit the Jackpot! See photos below!

Many thanks to our COVD Student Liaison - Noha Seif for rallying the students for a really good turn out inspite of many other committments on their time. Likewise I want to thank our Faculty Liaison (and COVD Regional Director) Dr. Christine Allison for being a great host and bringing dinner!

Also thanks… Continue

Added by Dr. Dan L. Fortenbacher on December 4, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

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