| drfrank21@gmail.com 2006-02-27, 12:59 am |
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momof4 wrote:
> I was told it would involve an hour a week in the office and nightly
> homework on a computer program that has reading comperhension and a
> moving window reading exercise. There is also 3-d exercises where he
> wears the glasses must hold his head still and serches for a ball on
> the screen, plays tennis ect. If vision therapy works why is it so
> hard to find and why does our regular eye visits not test for these
> things. Also what is the difference between a regular OD and a FCOVD.
> I was told only to go to the latter. I thank you for answering my
> questions
The vision training program you're describing sounds fine. A normal
eye examination WILL normally pick up motility (eye tracking),
binocular (2 eyes working together),convergence and accommodative
(focusing) problems to name a few.
As far as why so few O.D.'s do vision therapy my guess
is that it is time and space intensive and many(most) health insurance
do not cover the therapy.
The difference between an O.D. and FCOVD (board certified fellow of the
college of optometrists in vision development) is that the latter
underwent a program in behaviour vision.
frank
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