behavioural optometrist

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Hello can anybody recommend a private Bo in the staffordshire area or just recommend one (we don't mind travelling) and possible prices to pay. Thanks :)

Sheinman opticians in northampton.

On their website they say they offer 'home therapy system' which is the vision therapy I recommend the most.

But I haven't been to them myself....

OP why are you looking for one ???Am interested to compare notes /development stuff ? It has crossed my mind as well but dont know enough about it ?

BTW am no where near you to help (London) but wondering is it worth it ?

bizzey - vision therapy cures all sorts of vision problems like eye tracking problems and convergence insufficiency.

These vision problems often contribute to reading problems.

Symptoms of vision problems are:

• Difficulties learning to read.
• Reads slowly.
• Skips words when reading.
• Reads the first few letters of a word and guesses the rest.
• Loses place when reading.
• Can't copy off the blackboard.
• Bad speller.

Unfortunately not all behaviour optometrists are good.

There are 3 types of things BOs recommend

• prism glasses
• manual vision therapy
• computerised vision therapy.

The only one of those I can recommend is computerised vision therapy.

Thank you indigo ...(think we might have met before !) I am curious as when ds uses the computer he can see his spelling mistakes are quite quickly ..but writing he cannot see where the mistake is/are ??(he can put in pass word and know it is wrong and delete 1 dot or so ...I would have had to start again !!)

"cannot read lots of words ..but can suddenly "try to say a word out of context "...There i SAID it ...what does that mean!!

I'm not really sure whether what you describe could be a symptom of a vision problem or not.

Ask him if the words ever appear to move, get blurry, see double, his eyes get sore.

Do you ever see him rub his eyes, or close one eye so that he can see better, or tilt his head.

Things like that.....

Symptoms of Eyestrain

OK going to do a test on him now !! I will ask him to type in the sentance,,,,??

My mummy loves me and she is great

my mummy is luve and she is gaty

OK didnt mean to send that !!...But in his writen piece he wrote love as "luve"(ok) and great as "grat".....oh I am confused now ...this child is about to finish yr3 !!!

There's me saying he is better on computer !!!

Maybe he just knows his computer !!!

PS I read it to him..

is lovely

luve for lovely and grat for great at the end of Y3 is fine.

Not perfect obviously, but nothing to be too worried about.