How Behavioral Optometry Can Unlock Your Child's Potential

Preface. Introduction: My Vision for this Book. Part I. Understanding Vision in Children: Background and Basics. 1. Understanding the Effects of the ""Failure Syndrome"" in a child. 2. Convergence: What is it and Why is it Important. 3. The Difference Between Good Eyesight and Functional Vision. Part II. Overcoming Blocks and Unlocking Potential: What is Vision Therapy and When is it Needed?. 4. Vision Therapy: History and How it Works. 5. How Vision Therapy Can Aid Learning. 6. Vision Therapy and Learning Disabilities. 7. The Role of the Behavioral Optometrist in the Child Study Team. 8. Vision Therapy and Occupational Therapy: A Co-joined Approach. Part III. Specific Vision problems and Behavioral Optometric Interventions. 9. Types of Lenses and How They Help. 10. Some Specific Vision Problems: Nearsightedness, Strabismus, and Amblyopia. Epilogue: When I was Twelve. Resources. A Sample Letter. Visual Function Self Test. Exercises That May Be Done At Home. If you have Questions. Suggested Reading. Glossary.

Warshowsky comes across as a nice guy who has a passion for his field of work. His own experiences as a child and his experience of observing many children who seem to be let down by the education system is what drives his interest in this field. Many children have considerable resources invested in them but still fail to thrive and behavioural optometry, according to Warshowsky, can explain these anomalies... the book is divided into three parts and is clearly written. The first part is concerned with how vision problems affect a child and how this differentiates from sight problems. Part two expands on what vision therapy is and what it entails and finally he discusses specific vision problems and the therapeutic use of corrective lenses. There is a very useful appendix with exercises parents could try, which for a family on low income with no access to a behavioural optometrist could be helpful.