With five minutes left in the course she saw 3D for
the first time in her life and experiencing that was
life changing for her and for the rest of us in the
class,” he said.
“It was impactful as we were shown what a learning
disabled child goes through not just from a vision
process standpoint but also from a behavioural
one,”he said.
The second event happened in the third of four
segments that were all about learning disabilities
and autism.
“There was a standardized screening tool that we
learned about that determines if a child has an oculomotor and or a perceptual problem called a DEM
(developmental eye movement) assessment.”
He said the process takes about two minutes to run
and is quite effective to then ask deeper questions
in the history to determine if the child is having
any particular issues that we may be able to address
from a vision therapy standpoint.
He noted Vision therapy can help with reading
speed, reading comprehension, attention deficit
disorders, hand-eye coordination, balance, brain
injury, strabismus (eye turns), and amblyopia (lazy
eye). Vision therapy is a clinically proven, safe, noninvasive treatment. Vision therapy provides the
patient with the right opportunity to develop new
neurological pathways relating to the control of the
eyes, and the perception and processing of the
incoming information.
Nikolakakis said the depth of the communication
to support children that see 20/20 but complain of
headaches, eyestrain, having letters move on the
page and just not seeing right to a possible solution
has been the most gratifying gift that OEP and this
education has given him so far.
“It was impactful as we were shown what
a learning disabled child goes through
not just from a vision process standpoint
but also from a behavioural one,” he said.
Vision Therapy is only successful when used to develop the appropriate visual skills on someone who
is lacking those abilities, and when it is done in the
proper way. Similar to other areas of health care,
the approaches وY