vision therapy

The Peace Fleece went to the south Denver-metro office of Dr Lynn Hellerstein to attend a meeting with my long-but not lost-colleague.  "Coincidentally", since it was the week before Christmas and the start of Chanukah, her sister and head of the therapy programs at the clinic, Beth Fishman, had time to meet as well!  read more »

Lynn Hellerstein had posted a link to a very nice overview piece about vision and different conditions identified as special needs, learning disability, head injury, etc.  The link is: www.pediastaff.com/blog/special-article-oculo-visual-problems-of-patients-with-special-needs-5368  read more »

It is an honor to say that I know Lynn Hellerstein, OD, author of See it. Say it. Do It!  She not only further boosted my performance with brain / vision therapy and special eyeglasses, she has helped many of my clients and patients in the past 15 years as well.  She had written portions of books I had used in OT school in the 1990s, it turned out -- so it was a very good thing to have found my way to her when I was in Denver as a new OT in 1997.  read more »

Parents feel helpless when their frustrated children cry, “I can’t read! I can’t do math! I can’t hit a baseball!” Maybe the child is trying to say, “I can’t see!”  Children may have 20/20 eyesight but still suffer from vision problems.  They can read an eye chart just fine. But they can’t read a book.    read more »