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Vision and Learning
Vision problems can affect learning and development in children. Developmental optometry evaluates vision issues beyond visual acuity to identify problems like eye teaming, tracking, and visual processing. Vision therapy uses in-office procedures and home activities to treat issues through neurological training, helping children overcome challenges mistaken for conditions like ADHD. Seeing a developmental optometrist allows specialized assessment and treatment including glasses with bifocals or prisms and vision therapy.
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Vision and Learning
- 1. VISION AND LEARNING Enhancingthe lives of children with vision-related learning problems
- 2. Let’s Talk About. . . • Developmental Optometry • Vision • Vision Related Problems • Identifying Vision Problems v. ADHD • Vision Therapy We’re going to talk about some things you may recognize in yourself, a family member, or a patient Please ask lots of questions
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- 4. A part of Optometry sincethe 1930s
- 5. “I Can’t” “It’s blurry” “Thewords move” “I’m tired” We work with students who struggle with learning due to vision problems (sometimes confused with other learning issues like ADHD)
- 6. We also workwith developmental disabilities including Autism, CP, and Downs Syndrome
- 7. Post Trauma Vision Syndrome Diplopia Dizziness Headaches Light Sensitivity DifficultyReading Blurred Vision Poor Spatial Awareness Poor Concentration
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- 9. It is morethan 20/20 (acuity at 20 feet) Most classroom learning occurs at 20 inches! Acuity is important but it is only one aspect of vision
- 10. Vision is thecomprehensive ability to organize what is seen so that it can be understood and used to guide and direct one’s actions to interact with the world. “Sight is what our eyes see. Vision is what our mind understands what we see.” From Ricki G. Robinson, MD, MPH, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics USC (CA)
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- 13. Vision is our Dominant Sense “Thebrain receives about 3 million bits of information at every moment, and 2 million of these are from vision”. From V. S. Ramachandran MD, PhD
- 14. Vision develops overpredictable stages Primitive Reflexes Gross Motor Fine Motor
- 15. “When we openour eyes each morning, it is upon a world we have spent a lifetime learning to see.” From An Anthropologist on Mars By Oliver Sachs, MD
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- 17. Crowding When Reading Touching Walls Flapping Hands Tunnel Vision Poor Central/Peripheral VisualIntegration “Can’t see the forest for the trees.”
- 18. Lack of Visual Dominance “Beyondearly childhood.” Putting Things in Mouth Smelling Everything Touching Everything
- 19. Poor Eye Teaming Side-Glancing Rocking Back & Forth Waving Hand InFront of Face Poor Judge of Distance
- 20. Poor Tracking of Print Poor Eye Contact Short Attention Span PoorVisual Detail Poor Eye Tracking & Fixation
- 21. Clumsy Continual Movement Poor Orientation Vision-Vestibular Disturbance CarSick Poor Coordination
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- 23. Birth History Pregnancy/Birth Complications BirthWeight Under 5 lbs. Adoption Prematurity
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- 26. Stress from long-term near work
- 27. HOW DO WE IDENTIFYVISION PROBLEMS?
- 28. 30 – item standardized checklist If20 points or above, suspicion of vision problem
- 29. Head Tilt Skips Lines Poor Reading Comprehension Misaligns Columnsof Digits Uses Finger Past 2nd Grade Holds Book Too Close Uses One Eye
- 30. Difficulty Completing Assignments Avoids/Refus es Near Work Behavioral Problems, ClassClown, Aggressive, Delinquent Headaches, Especially After Near Work Homework Wars
- 31. Clumsy Poor Personal Space AccidentProne Excessive activity Gravitationally- Insecure
- 32. WHAT DO WENEED TO KNOW ABOUT VISION PROBLEMS?
- 33. "National PTA recognizes:Early diagnosis and treatment of children's vision problems is a necessary component to school readiness and academic learning . . .” Learning-Related Vision Problems Education and Evaluation - National PTA resolution June 1999
- 34. 20% of the US population cannotview 3-D movies It is estimated that more than 10 million children (ages 0 to 10) suffer from vision problems
- 35. “Results from a nationwideclinical trial…many children ages 7 through 17 with amblyopia (lazy eye) may benefit from treatments that are more commonly used on younger children.” "3-fold incidence of ADHD with presence of convergence insufficiency.” “Office-based vergence accommodative therapy is an effective treatment for children with symptomatic convergence insufficiency (CI).” Research? National Eye Institute April 11, 2005 Ratner Children’s Eye Center, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial (CITT) NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH October 13, 2008
- 36. WHAT CAN WEDO ABOUT VISION PROBLEMS?
- 37. See a Developmen tal Optometrist who can. . . Glasses may contain bifocals and prisms Virginia Vision Therapy Center . . . prescribe Specialized Glasses . . . conduct Developmen tal Vision Assessment and . . .
- 38. Vision Therapy isneurological training Does not strengthen eye muscles In-Office Procedure s and Activities Home Vision Training Vision Therapy
- 39. From 2-D to3-D Sight: How One Scientist Learned to See Scientific American August 4,2009 From www.stereosue.com
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