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 […] […]

Is vision a learned process?  Perhaps not.  But don’t let that fool you into thinking that it isn’t developed, or merely somehow inborn, pre-programmed, and little influenced by epigenetic processes and interactions.  I’m with Jacob Barnett.  Learning doesn’t lead to creativity.  Seeing with your own unique perspective leads to visual thinking, and thinking […]