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August is National Children’s Vision and Learning Month
August 16, 2015
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Eye Coordination Problems Can Make Words “Hop Like Frogs” With many children going back to school in August, now is the perfect time to focus on the critical link between vision and learning. “More than 5 million children in the U.S. have eye coordination and eye foc
Continue Reading →NAACP Passes Resolution on Optometric Vision Therapy
October 13, 2012
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A routine visit to the eye doctor resulted in a national resolution that was passed by the NAACP at its 100th Anniversary Convention held in New York City, endorsing optometric vision therapy as a way to help some prisoners become productive members of society.
When Charles Brittin
Continue Reading →From 2-D to 3-D Sight: How One Scientist Learned to See in Stereo
August 04, 2009
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August 4, 2009, Article from Scientific American – Sue Barry discusses what it’s like to live in a 2-D world and explains how she learned to see in stereo Sue Barry is a neuroscientist at Mount Holyoke College. She’s also the author of the newly released book Fixing
Continue Reading →Super Bowl Star Larry Fitzgerald Stops to Give Parents Advice on Vision Therapy
July 28, 2009
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Arizona Cardinals 2008 NFC West Champions’ wide-receiver, Larry Fitzgerald, is helping eye doctors spread the word to parents that vision problems can interfere with a child’s ability to pay attention, read and learn. “Even if you have been told your child has perfect vision or 20/
The key to 3-D vision
June 23, 2009
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A visual impairment that condemns children to see in only two dimensions can go unrecognized for years and be mistaken for stigmatized disorders. LA Times By Susan R. Barry June 22, 2009 I was 20 years old and a college student before I learned that I did not see the world like everyo
Continue Reading →Being outdoors lowers risk of nearsightedness
January 17, 2009
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January 12, 2009 Los Angeles Times Spending two or three hours outdoors each day appears to lower a child’s risk of developing nearsightedness, although researchers can’t explain why. A study published in this month’s issue of the journal Optometry and Vision Science
Continue Reading →The NFL’s Most Exciting Receiver
January 17, 2009
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January 16, 2009 The Wall Street Journal Reports. While they’re not over yet, this year’s National Football League playoffs have already produced one spectacle for the ages: the remarkable ability of Arizona Cardinals’ wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald to pluck passes o
Continue Reading →Learning to See in Stereo
January 08, 2009
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NPR Report – January 8, 2009 An old brain can learn new tricks. Adults with amblyobia can learn to see in stereo. Listen to they had to say Learn more.
Continue Reading →New Study Suggests Vision Therapy is for Real
December 23, 2008
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October 31, 2008 The Daily Herald Reports. A new National Institutes of Health study is lending credence to vision therapy as a treatment for convergence insufficiency, a vision disorder that may affect one of every eight people across the United States. Convergence insufficiency occu
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