We've decided to get evaluated for Vision Therapy...

Good luck, Karen. I think the referral is key. It is so hard to evaluate professionals as parents at the outset and by the time you can, a lot of time has gone by. Credentials are only a starting place. The quality of people with the same credentials varies enormousely in my experience.

Beth.

How did your son present in his neuropsyc evaluation? What is it that leads you to VT? Actually, I’d like to know what a neuropsych evaluation consists of if someone knows.

Oh Good, then you can tell me all the exercises to do and it will save me the trouble. Only kidding.

We are having my son evaluated by a pace provider who is also a VT. I had thought about asking about VT.

I actually have decided to do that circle the e exercise discussed below and a few more tracking exercises. I know that my son has a tracking problem so I might as well do what I can for the time being.

I know that circle the e exercise will be very difficult for him. He hates to do things that involve visual detail which probably means that he needs to do it.

I think I told you once before that I have a friend whose son sounds exactly like yours that had a “focusing” problem. Once this was resolved (she chose the glasses route) he took off academicly.

Good Luck

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Specifically, he said that the kids he sees usually have a higher VIQ than PIQ, interesting to me because my son does. This is also a red flag for NVLD, which has never been a good clean fit for my son. Obviously kids with NVLD might benefit from vision therapy, but clearly every child that benefits from vision therapy doesn’t have NVLD. Know what I mean?

He said the coding subtest is usually low if there is a visual motor problem, but many of the other performance subtests also require intact visual skills that can be improved with vision therapy.

I’m paraphrasing here, but this is a person I’ve known for years, and who has nothing to be gained by advocating VT for us.

I will tell you the exercises! : )

I have a dau with many visual problems and looked into VT myself.(My dau has amblyopia (20/30 and 20/60 corrected), esotropia, and visual processing difficulties. The amblyopia and esotropia Dx came from the opthalmologist and the processing came from a neuropsych - the ophalmologist did not want to deal with the processing issues) We opted not to try VT due to cost and time restraints. Make sure that all visual aspects are covered before getting involved in this, some visual disorders cannot be corrected. We were fortunate enough to get services for the visually impaired through the district and my dau loved it! (She did well with it and district has since scaled back her services)
Also, it has been my experience that teachers and districts are not very well informed about visual processing problems and are not experienced to deal with them. Keep on top of things and good luck!

Good luck Karen!
As you may recall, we’ve been considering visual therapy too so I’ll be curious to hear about your experiences.