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Medical Forum / General / Vision / February 2006vision therapy
I am confused and looking for help? My 9 year old son has always been told his vision was fine and he did not need glasses. He is dyslexic and we were told that it could not be "fixed" but helped through vision therapy. After I went through the screening, I was told he had no perception problems just muscle problems. He had trouble with tracking, convergent and divergent problems. Can therapy using a computer program help these problems? Have any of you ever heard of this or had any experience with it? I have been told it would help and it wouldn't help. I want to help my child but I don't want to waste my money because my insurance will not pay. > I am confused and looking for help? My 9 year old son has always been > told his vision was fine and he did not need glasses. He is dyslexic [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > it wouldn't help. I want to help my child but I don't want to > waste my money because my insurance will not pay. Vision therapy can be quite effective if there is committment and motivation from yourself and your son. To be most effective, there needs to be office visits with a qualified vision therapist (which can include your son doing exercises on the computer); trying to do it alone with just using a computer program usually wont work. Tracking, motility skills, and conv/divergent skills are all skills that can be enhanced with vt. frank I was told it would involve an hour a week in the office and nightly homework on a computer program that has reading comperhension and a moving window reading exercise. There is also 3-d exercises where he wears the glasses must hold his head still and serches for a ball on the screen, plays tennis ect. If vision therapy works why is it so hard to find and why does our regular eye visits not test for these things. Also what is the difference between a regular OD and a FCOVD. I was told only to go to the latter. I thank you for answering my questions. > I was told it would involve an hour a week in the office and nightly > homework on a computer program that has reading comperhension and a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I was told only to go to the latter. I thank you for answering my > questions The vision training program you're describing sounds fine. A normal eye examination WILL normally pick up motility (eye tracking), binocular (2 eyes working together),convergence and accommodative (focusing) problems to name a few. As far as why so few O.D.'s do vision therapy my guess is that it is time and space intensive and many(most) health insurance do not cover the therapy. The difference between an O.D. and FCOVD (board certified fellow of the college of optometrists in vision development) is that the latter underwent a program in behaviour vision. frank > I am confused and looking for help? My 9 year old son has always been > told his vision was fine and he did not need glasses. He is dyslexic [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > and it wouldn't help. I want to help my child but I don't want to > waste my money because my insurance will not pay. I'm not a doctor, but I am doing VT and have researched it a lot. The sympotms you describe are the ones that (it is widely accepted) VT is very effective at treating. Just getting a computer program is not appropriate though; you need to find a VT person and do office visits. I'm not sure you can get the software yourself anyway... I tried. |
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