Hoping someone can offer some advice please. DS aged 7 has a squint. He mainly uses his left eye but jumps to using right eye. (So he never uses both eyes together.) Aged 2 he had surgery to cosmetically correct the appearance of the squint and we were told there was pretty much 0% chance of him ever using both eyes. Now aged 7 the appearance of the squint has pretty much returned and he gets comments such as freaky, scary, weird eyes from children (although fortunately not his friends) and this upsets him as he’s quite a sensitive boy. We have an appointment with the hospital at the end of the month to discuss more surgery. However on top of this, he’s had a few learning issues at school and now after seeing educational psychologists and speaking to the teachers it’s believed that it could be linked to his sight (so not how clearly he sees with his eyes but how his brain sees and uses information, if that makes sense). He scored very low on visual spatial tests and can sometimes seem uncoordinated. His other areas of learning from the tests ranged from average to well above average.
Anyway I’ve recently finished reading a book called ‘Fixing my gaze’ which is about a woman with the same eye diagnosis as DS who started vision therapy with a behavioural optometrist and after a lengthy process regained her binocular sight. I keep wondering whether there’s any harm into looking into this further for DS. I am confident that NHS will not help and am willing to pay privately/travel for someone good who can help but I don’t know if I’m clutching at straws seeing as NHS surgeons have said in past nothing can be done. In the back of my mind however I keep thinking it’s a long process with unknown results and therefore the NHS will not pay, plus the departments are overseen by surgeons who specialise in surgery. Any advice anyone? Thanks.
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Does vision therapy work for children with squints? Any success stories? Or even unsuccessful stories?
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Ineedsomesleepzzzz · 07/08/2016 22:25
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