Behavioural optometry

[Lucinda88]

I've just found out my 14 yr old daughter has a processing speed in the 2nd centile and similar for the pseudword test. I had expected her to be diagnosed with dyslexia, but the educational psychologist said that it was not this. She's been complaining of not being able to keep up in class and unable to copy from the board. The report mentions a link to visual motor skills, so I was thinking of getting her assessed by a behavioural optometrist for vision therapy. Shes been complaining that her eyes dont always focus quickly enough when movinf between the page and the whiteboard which I put down to her wearing glasses. Has anyone used a behavioural optometrist? I just dont want waste £. Thank you.

Hi,
I have heard about Behavioural optometry as my daughters educational physiologist had mentioned it. I want to meet one but was not able to find any who does this role. if you know of somebody please let me know.
Thanks
Shilpa

My dd didn't have full behaviour optometry but was properly assessed for coloured lenses - it more than doubled her reading speed and massively improved her comprehension as she wasn't struggling so hard to read and follow the words so could think about what the words were saying. It also helped maths as she didn't miss vital words in the questions which often completely changed what it was asking.

My son just had this recently as he is slow to pick up reading and I felt he was 'scanning' the book alot and then when I mentioned it to the teacher she said that he was slow to take things down from the board. He had a full assessment and his tracking is off. He's only 6 and quite inattentive so the optometrist said there was no point in working with him yet but she asked me to continue games like where's wally, dot-to-dot, tanograms, popping bubbles with his figure. Anything really that requires focus. There is also a website called 'eyecanlearn' which has exercises.

ps. your daughter is obviously super clever and adaptive to have escaped notice of the teachers until now.

Yes we used Owen Leigh in Petersfield for around 14 months when my DS was 12/13. He was having similar issues to those you describe with your DD. He also couldn’t bowl/ throw straight or ride a bike in a straight line without falling off. Huge improvements academically too

We paid for a private assessment by a behavioural opthamologist, our DS who is now 9 was diagnosed with a visual processing disorder.

We are 15 months into a course of vision therapy and although he still struggles massively he has made huge improvements. I would definitely recommend them.

We had to use one due to hyper mobility issues which lead us to double vision diagnosis. My DD now needs to sit at the front in lessons & have printouts of whiteboard material where possible to avoid copying.

My 10 year old has very recently been diagnosed with a visual processing disorder.

We're got an appointment with a behavioural optometrist that the ed psych recommended in the New Year.

Have a look on the British Association of Behavioural Optometrist's website, which has lists of qualified practitioners.

babo.co.uk/find-a-behavioural-optometrist/

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Thank you so much for the replies. who diagnosis the visual disorder? whom should I see to get it checked?

Does the ed psych report contain further suggestions for assessment.

I would think the next step would be a behavioural optometrist for a detailed assessment of her visual processing difficulties.