Dr. Len Press, optometric colleague, just published an article about the unique learning styles of gifted children. He concludes, “Ultimately, it is our responsibility to be sure that the creative gifts that children have in visual thinking and visualization are not sacrificed in acquiring other visual readiness skills for reading. The challenge is to make children like Brigid feel […]
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Vision Therapy Grand Rounds
My gratitude to the GWCO (Great Western Council Optometry) Board for the opportunity to speak this past weekend to their optometric meeting. Over 100 optometrists attended my 2 lectures: Vision Therapy Grand Rounds and The Power of Visualization. Great interest, questions and response. It’s exciting to see how many primary care optometrists were interested […]
Understanding Children Who Struggle In School
Dr. Len Press, my mentor and fellow developmental optometrist, just finished reading a marvelous new book by Deborah P. Waber, PhD, a neuropsychologist in the Learning Disabilities Program in the Department of Neurology at Harvard Medical School. It is encouraging to hear Dr. Waber’s perspective that over-emphasis on phonological processing for the past 20 years […]
See It. Say It. Do It! – See the Video
Thanks to Cat, author of SensoryFlow.com on-line news magazine, she has continued to share the important message of vision & learning. Her site is full of very useful information for parents, teachers and therapists to better understand children with special needs (especially with sensory processing disorders). She includes other experts who treat and speak […]