Pediatric Vision

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 […] […]

This cute new Evian video gone viral reminds me of the mirror neuron concept and its role in neurotypical development.  What’s so special about mirror neurons?  Here is a nice overview of the topic from a Scientific American blog last June.  V.S. Ramanchandran hangs his hat heavily on the significance of mirror neurons in brain function … […]