Northwest Vision Development Center

Imagine you are in the 3rd grade and when it comes to reading, you just cannot keep up.  You breezed through phonics, you can bark out some of the largest, longest words in your class, you even spell pretty well.  The problem is, you can’t remember a thing about what you just read.  The teacher […]

Last week I brought a group of 1st year optometry students to an elementary school in Brooklyn .  We performed a vision screening on roughly 80 pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and 1st grade students.  I really enjoy taking 1st year students on vision screenings.  It’s their first real clinical experiences.  They get to practice what they have […] […]

One of the most challenging aspects of vision therapy is designing procedures that provide good feedback on when patients are truly processing with both eyes simultaneously.  The patients that have the greatest need for these procedures are those with strabismus, usually detected by motor misalignment of the eyes, or the eyes not being simultaneously aimed … […]