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[quote=Anonymous]There is disdain for vision therapy here, but not from us.  We did it and it was hugely helpful.

Two points.  One is that vision and eyesight are not the same.  Our child had eyes that focused well but which weren't working together.  It perplexed us for quite a while. Scored well on eye charts but put DC in various environments and they couldn't find their way to the exit or pick us out of a crowd.  The eyes just weren't coordinating.

Second point: in our case what looked like attention problems were actually vision problems.  Our child didn't know how to focus or what to focus on, so when the gymnastics teacher was demonstrating a skill DC would wander off to look at a gadget left lying on a nearby table.  To adult observation it appeared DC couldn't hold attention.  It turned out that DC's attentional issues were just fine but that they couldn't figure out what to focus on, especially anything involving any distance or depth perception.

Without VT I'm betting our child might have been diagnosed with ADHD.  Now our child is regarded as having exceptionally good focus, attention and self-discipline.[/quote]

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