Are you . . . a PARENT searching for the right interventions for your child? . . . a PROFESSIONAL looking to enhance your treatments?. . .an EDUCATOR exploring innovative ideas for the classroom?. . .an ADULT trying to regain your health? Then this is the ONLY guide to autism, ADD and learning disabilities you need to . . . Discover how load factors accumulate and trigger symptoms; Learn about the role of vision and visual issues in ASD; Find out why a diagnosis doesn't determine treatment; Regain hope and optimism for your children and students! Editor Patricia S. Lemer is Co-founder and Executive Director of Developmental Delay Resources (DDR). She is a nationally certified counselor and has worked as an advocate for children with autism and related disorders for 40 years. Includes contributions from more than 20 authors.

Envisioning a Bright Future: Interventions That Work for Children and Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Optometric Extension Program

Stress can create a number of physiological disturbances in your patients. Stress and Vision explores the impact of general and visual stress on physiological, psychological and philosophical processes. It supports a psycho-behavioral approach, emphasizing that stress arises from within ourselves. The author gives guidance for changing those mental attitudes that either trigger or magnify the stress and visual stress response.

Stress and Vision

Self-Help

Forrest, Elliott B.

Stress Management

Vision enhancement training means achieving total efficient vision which takes place effortlessly and is directed by a mind that is not hampered by limitations previously imposed from warped perceptions. This book was written to change some of the basic thinking about vision. Includes chapters on a psycho-behavioral approach to fusion, vision enhancement training and academic achievement, several case histories, and more.

Vision Enhancement Training

Shankman, Albert L.

Medical Books

This book discusses home vision therapy and details a 10-week home therapy program complete with list of equipment needed and the various activities. Over 50 different activities are detailed in the manual and the forms for each activity are easily duplicated for use in your office. Some of the activities included in this book are Loose Lens Rock; Cross Pattern Walk; Pencil, Tack and String; b-d-p-q Sorting; Letter Tracking, and much more.

Optometric Vision Therapy (Introduction to Behavioral Optometry)

Swartwout, J. Baxter

Allied Health Professions

Unique services and your success (Introduction to behavioral optometry)

Harris, Paul.

In this book, Dr. Wunderlich describes the factors that medicine considers important in caring for the whole child and the relation to visual functioning. He shares his ideas on the growth and development of the whole child, what he terms the bio-social decline, the effects of faulty nutrition, brain dysfunction, allergy, activity, audition, and medical treatment. He also considers information obtainable through medical and developmental history, optometrists' communication with physicians, and makes observations on optometric care.

Pediatric Optometry: To Help a Child-The Pediatric-Optometric Approach (Introduction to Behavioral Optometry)

Wunderlich, Ray C.

A complete text of clinical information and philosophy for the behavioral optometrist. The procedures covered in Developmental Optometry are relevant to hundreds of patients who are not reaching their inherent potential because of visual problems. An essential addition to your research library.

Developmental Optometry: The Optometric Appraisal of Vision Development and Visual Performance (Introduction to Behavioral Optometry)

Getman, G. N.

After a serious car accident in which she suffered severe head trauma and was partially blinded, Dr. Stumbo was diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and given the devastating verdict, no hope for improvement. This is a fascinating first-hand account of this TBI survivor. The author shares how behavioral vision care lead to recovery by providing skills to function and prosper after medical doctors gave her little hope for a normal life. A message to survivors, families and health care practitioners who work with TBI patients.

Endless Journey: A Head-Trauma Victim's Remarkable Rehabilitation

Biographies & Memoirs

Stumbo, Janet A.

Professionals & Academics

A multi-authored volume of articles discussing new brain and rehabilitation research, the sensory integration and vision correction in child development, occupational therapy's role and more. Contains over 30 pages of activities with emphasis on what senses are called upon and how the patient uses vision to reinforce and take the place of other senses.

Vision and Sensory Integration: Behavioral Aspects of Vision Care

Merrill D. Bowan

Sharon Berger

Karin Hessellund

Je Nutto

Marlo Payne Rice

A text written by several authors from different healthcare disciplines to provide optometrists with a broad understanding of acquired brain injury, its ocular, visual and vestibular consequences and some of the current pertinent optometric research. The information should alert healthcare providers to the contributions optometrists make to improve the functional abilities and quality of life of these patients.

Visual & Vestibular Consequences of Acquired Brain Injuries

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