The NY Times has been flooded with comments regarding Judith Warner’s misleading article on vision therapy several weeks ago. Here are a couple of great responses regarding her article.
To the Editor,
I am glad I didn’t read Judith Warner’s misleading and discouraging article about vision therapy until now, six thrilling months into my own course of vision therapy with Carl Gruning, my behavioral optometrist in Southport, Connecticut. As a 54-year-old with never-treated severe amblyopia (functional blindness in one eye), having been told over three decades by my Yale-affiliated opthalmologist that seeking any kind of treatment for my blind eye was as fruitless as an amputee wishing for regrowth of a lost limb, I am now developing my eyesight in significant ways through rigorous vision therapy.
Vision therapy is real, and it works. I have gone from 20/400 to better than 20/50 in my weak eye, and I have the daily joy of seeing the world in three dimensions as I have never seen it before. I grieve that I was never offered these simple treatment options which have been available for fifty years or more, and the negative tone of this article is a perfect example of the blindness of the medical establishment that deprived me of the opportunity of improved eyesight until now. Fortunately, I was inspired to try this treatment last summer by reading Susan Barry’s new book about her own vision therapy, FIXING MY GAZE.
When I go to my behavioral optometrist’s office for my weekly session, I am surrounded by children for whom vision therapy is the source of crucial gains. The article’s condescending and narrow focus on desperate parents seeking solutions for their autistic children meant that no reader could possibly understand the actual nature of this process and for whom it succeeds in very real ways. Ms. Warner’s vision has clearly been clouded and distorted by her agenda. If she is interested in improving her own vision on this subject, she is very welcome to come to Connecticut and observe my vision therapy, any time.
Yours truly,
Katharine Weber
…The author of this article is Judith Warner, a frequent contributor to the NY Times who lives in Washington, D.C. Ms. Warner uses this article to gain publicity for her new book, entitled: “We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication”. The article masquerades as a journalistic investigation of vision therapy, but it’s tone mocking parents who believe in vision therapy as gullible is unmistakable.
This will come as no surprise to anyone who reads her book….
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