This is a response to a question by someone on the feasible forum
about vision therapy. sabisue

Sometimes after the brain injury the person is having trouble reading
because his eyes aren't working together. (It can be a lot more than
that, of course, but some people have gone to vision therapy and been
helped.) Optometric vision therapy can help eye movement disorder and
perceptual-motor dysfuntion issues. Seeing an optometrist who does
vision therapy can help in the diagnosis and treatment. These
professionals will assign eye exercises. Sometimes they can help
reteach the eyes to focus and coordinate properly.


To read properly people must have binocularity skills. Their eyes
must converge properly. That is, the eyes must work as a team and
they must be able to turn inward to maintain single vision up close.
Well, again, sometimes that is lost with the brain injury. People
trying to read might not be able to focus, concentrate, and might
have headaches when they try to. They might no longer be able to
process (or reproduce, write) visual images. So taking vision therapy
can sometimes help. I have known a couple of people who went for it
and who were helped.

There are a couple of OD's in our area (Sonoma County and Marin
County, Northern California) that do vision therapy, including James
Bruns in Rohnert Park, Larry Jebrock in Novato, and Eliot Kaplan in
Mill Valley. Here are two books (I have not read them, but let me
know if they help.) Eyes on Track (Kristy M. Remick, OD; Carol
Stroud, BS; and Vick Bedes, OVT (vision therapist). (In the book many
eye exercises are given.) Understanding and Managing Vision Deficits:
A Guide for Occupational Therapists by Mitchell Scheiman, OD.

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