Reply to developmental optometrist?

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "developmental optometrist?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Both my sons went to Dr Malhotra in Vienna for Vision Therapy.  One for tracking issues and Convergence insufficiency and the other because he complained of headaches while reading even though his vision tested at 20/20.  The tracking issues improved dramatically (Couldn't read out loud before therapy without skipping words and lines.  Now no problem and therefore comprehension is much better.) The other's headaches went away and can read much longer chapter book with smaller print because the words stay in focus better.  I started seeing improvement in their reading after about six weeks of going once per week and homework.  Dr Malhotra was great for the year they were seeing her.

We did not get "magic" glasses.  NIH has a double blind randomized study which resulted in Vision Therapy being the recommended best treatment for Convergence Insufficiency. It bothers me that Vision Therapy is so disrespected when there are many children out there who might benefit from its use.  When doing my own research, I found quite a few studies which supported its use as a treatment.  However Vision Therapy does not involve drugs or surgery so the $5M spent on the only double study at NIH is a huge sum in this field.  That is also the reason most of the studies are done by optometrists.  I don't dismiss those studies on that basis because most studies in the field are done by the people practicing in that field.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics