Dr. Susan Barry Webinar – Vision Therapy as an Adult

Thanks to COVD (College of Optometrists in Vision Development)!

The 2010 August is National Children’s Vision & Learning Month hosted a webinar to discuss vision and learning and the success of vision therapy for Dr. Susan Barry.  Help COVD continue to spread the word about the link between vision and learning.

Dr. Barry was feautured in an article in The New Yorker by neurologist, Oliver Sacks, MD in June, 2006, and since wrote a book on her journey through vision therapy into a 3-dimensional world, Fixing My Gaze.  She was cross-eyed as a baby, but three childhood surgeries made her eyes look straight.  Her doctors thought she would never gain stereo vision – the ability to see in three dimensions. Then, at age 48, Dr. Barry consulted a developmental optometrist who prescribed a program of optometric vision therapy, which taught her to see in stereo. Dr. Barry is a professor of neurobiology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Mount Holyoke College.

Click here to hear the webinar