AD Symptoms requiring child psychologist or eye specialist
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My 6yo went through 2 rounds of 3 wk intensive therapy (30min and then 40min for nxt round cos he protested alot when we first started and i wanted to give him more time (5-10min) to settle down).We’re doing daily home exercises now and I asked his OT to administer the Visual Perception test after his 2 rounds, the results were better than pre-therapy. It might take awhile to see noticeable results.
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Consider this software, which may be sold by your OT: http://www.visiontherapysolutions.net/pts.php#1
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Hi,
My son went thru 2 rounds of 3 week therapy with Orthovision (1st round was 30 min each, 2nd round was 40 min each.) Zoran claimed there is slight improvement but it doesn’t seem so to me. He still skips words or lines when reading. I am at my wits’ end. Any other therapy that we can try, besides igard? -
Hi Audvis,
How many sessions you have done? My son did two rounds of 15 sessions and daily reading as suggested by Zoran. Although I have higher expectation than what I see now but there is improvement in terms of awareness. For example, he has improve in identifying and looking into details. I guess all these therapies needs a lot of time and patience.
His reading exercise has improved as well but may be what contributes to it is we doing it everyday. -
Hi ktyong, we have done 30 sessions.
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What did Zoran recommend next? Home practice? For my son, we doing home practice daily and occasion review by Zoran.
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We were asked to try the brain games from Lumosity to enhance the vision therapy.
http://www.lumosity.com/app/v4/personalization -
He recommended home practice and occasional review. The home practice is very strange. My son has to use a red and green spectacle lens, together with red and green overlay to read the words on a book. The dad and I try this ourselves, we can’t see some of the words. He can’t see the green words, but I can’t see the red words. How to expect the boy to see?!
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Red green lens is an anti suppression method. It’s used for lazy eye, wandering eye, and generally in cases where the therapist believes that the child may be suppressing vision in one eye to prevent double images due to poor binocular teaming. I guess you have to consider if this is the case for your son? You can always get a second opinion on the wandering eye. Or just observe him closely on eye movements.
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Btw, if you and your dh cannot read half of it, it’s a sign that you are also suppressing part of your vision. The eye with the green lens is supposed to read the words in the red overlay. The eye with red lens is supposed to read the words in the green overlay. For you to read everything, both eyes must be ‘activated’.
At least that’s the theory,i’ve never tried it myself. It’s not unusual for both parent and child to have the same condition. Usually the adults have learnt to compensate and function with it.
edit to add: btw, Irlen also uses color filters but the rationale is totally different.
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