behavioral ophthalmologist

[James Colclough]

Hi,


I posted a couple of weeks ago regarding my daughter, possible aspergers.

She has now been diagnosed with dispraxia, although not KC related we have been advised by the occuaptional therapist to take our daughter to see a behavioral ophthalmologist.

Hope the spelling is correct.

If anyone has any knowledge or experience in this please let me know.

[Pat A]

Hi James
Sorry to hear this - we all worry about our children a lot especially when something doesn't seem quite right, so I am sure you must be concerned at the moment.
Don't know too much about this at all really I'm afraid - but the son of a friend of ours was diagnosed as a fairly young child - but he is now 24 and seems to have completely outgrown it, getting a 1st class honours degree in Engineering!
It did cause a few problems in the early days in as much as he struggled mainly with co-ordination of movement and so was not very good at certain sports as a child, and was terrible at playing with lego I recall! He seemed to be a bit clumsy at times. But he's not a half bad cricketer now!

Hope that helps a bit.

[Andrew MacLean]

Behavioural ophthalmology? I think I know what each of these words means, but I am afraid I could not even guess at their meaning in combination like this.

I did "google" the term and found a reference to it, but when I followd the link it left me none-the-wiser.

If you do find out what it means, please share the information with us. I'm intrigued.

Andrew

[Anne B]

I could be barking up the wrong tree here
But would it be to do with developing hand eye coordination, a bit like speech therapy but for the eyes, i'm just guessing

Hope all goes well for your daughter, i am sure with the right support she will be just fine.

All the best

Anne

[kerrie phillips]

Yes you are roughly correct Dyspraxia is a difficulty in performing co-ordinated movements. it is a problem with signals from hands to eyes. ( alot of elderly people that have had strokes have this).
so it would be partly to do with helping to co-ordinate the movements.

[kerrie phillips]

go to
http://www.rnib.org.uk
http://www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk
http://webonline.co.uk
later is very good and provides symptons or visible stages through the ages.
all explain what it is what to expect and treatments as well as help/advice groups like this one!!

[James Colclough]

Found this

What is Behavioural Optometry?

Behavioural Optometry is a vision care system based on the understanding that vision is the dominant process in the human species and develops throughout one's life. Behavioural optometrists use lenses and vision training to facilitate the development of a more efficient and complete visual process. This enhanced visual process allows for improved performance in all areas of life in general movement and co-ordination, in school, the workplace, sports and other recreational activities.
Behavioural optometry defines vision as the ability to derive meaning and direct actions from what is seen as triggered by the process of light entering the eye and impinging on the retina. It explores and examines how the visual input at the eye is dealt with in the brain and how it integrates with other brain processes e.g. hearing, movement, touch etc.

[Andrew MacLean]

Thanks James

I guess thje original post naming bahavioural ophthalmology was a typo for behavioural optometry. This makes sense, now.

Dyspraxia makes snese also. In my line ob business there is a lot of interplay between orthopraxia and orthodoxy.

Andrew

[piper]

Andrew......lad......how can you spell orthopraxia and orthodoxy correctly and mis-spell the word "of"? just kidding you, of course. piper

[Andrew MacLean]

That's easy, Piper. I think what my fingers are doing when I am typing more complex words, and let them go into "free-fall" when doing the ordinary stuff.

Good to see you again, how are things?

Andrew