AOA with the generous support of Hoya Vision Care, held a great multi-disciplinary vision summit in Washington DC in April 2011. I was honored to have been chosen as one of the 50 summit attendees as the representative of COVD. 26 different agencies has signed on to the joint statement regarding the importance of […]
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Is Your Child Visually Ready for School?
August was declared National Children’s Vision and Learning Month in 1995. The goal of this national observance is to help educate parents about the critical link between vision and learning. The College of Optometrists in Vision Development will be hosting a webinar with Jillian and Robin Benoit on August 25th to celebrate the month. Jillian […]
Vision & Learning-Get Ready for School!
The American Optometric Association, with the support of HOYA vision, has released an excellent video on the importance of Vision & Learning. I am honored to have been invited to the 2011 Vision Summit, where this video was made. Don’t be left behind! Make sure your kids have yearly eye exams from a Doctor of […]
American Federation of Teachers (AFT)-Eliminate Vision Problems From Schools
As part of the 2011 American Optometric Summit on Focus on Vision, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT- representing 1.5 million teachers, paraprofessionals other school-related personnel, higher education faculty and staff, federal/state & local government employees, nurses/healthcare workers and early childhood educators) issued a press release joining other national organizations in signing on to a […]
Vision & Learning Readiness- Summit in Washington DC
I was honored to be the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) representative at the 2011 School Readiness Summit: Focus on Vision (April 11-12, 2011) in Washington DC. The Summit included: 1. Updated neurologic research on vision and learning 2. Heart-touching stories from Dr. Sue Barry (author of Fixing My Gaze) and Robin Benoit (author […]
Optometrists & Ophthalmologists Need to See Eye to Eye!
Dr. Dom Maino, ICO Professor and OVD Editor, has written an excellent blogpost on the critical link between vision & learning. He references the excellent blog discussion between Dr. Len Press (developmental optometrist) and Dr. David Granet (Pediatric Ophthalmologist). As Dr. Maino strongly states, “It is past time for all OD’s and OMD’s to work […]
Healthier Students Are Better Learners
Charles E. Basch, Ph.D. is the Richard March Hoe Professor of Health Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Professor Basch presented a fascinating lecture at the New York Academy of Medicine on, “Healthier Students Are Better Learners: A Missing Link In Efforts To Close The Achievement Gap”. In his presentation, Professor Bausch focused on how health […]
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 […]