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[quote=Anonymous]OP: you're welcome.

[quote]Not to mention that posters are not supposed to be advertising their services. As the parent of a special needs child, the fact that she comes on to our forum here to do this offends me much more than anything anyone has posted here.[/quote]

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend, only offer information. If you don't want to see me, see another developmental optometrist-- at least the child will be getting the care he or she needs. I hear on a daily basis-- Why didn't we hear about developmental optometry before?-- which is especially heartbreaking when the child is fourteen, thinks he's stupid and a failure, has tried a million other therapies with only partial success. I hate it when a mom cries in my office feeling she failed her child, because nobody ever told her how we can help. When children come to us earlier, remediation is much quicker, potentially saving parents a lot of money on both vision therapy and the other unsuccessful therapies they would have tried before eventually ending up in my office anyway.

[quote]Amazing how Dr. Zeller once again chimes in at any mention of vision therapy....with her name....and website. [/quote]

If I posted anonymously, would that have been better? I prefer to be upfront and honest and let you know who I am.

Like I wrote above, go see another developmental optometrist if you don't like my style. I feel it's more important to get the message out about developmental optometry and vision therapy than to bring people specifically to [i]my[/i] door because I see daily how VT improves lives. And there are a LOT of great docs in the DC area, to whom I refer regularly when they are more convenient to the patient.

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Caution, op. The site the Doctor mentions is not unbiased. Check out the sponsors of the site.[/quote] 
Yes, the sponsor of the site is the College of Optometrists in Vision Development. If you look at the research listed on the site, much of it is from the optometric literature, but a significant portion is from peer-reviewed ophthalmology journals, education journals, and psychology journals.

Amanda Zeller Manley, O.D.[/quote]

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