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Vision therapy (VT), or behavioral optometry, is an umbrella term for alternative medicine treatments using eye exercises, based around the pseudoscientific claim that vision problems are the true underlying cause of learning difficulties, particularly in children. [1]
A new device may identify autism in children from ages 16 months to 30 months, new research finds. The tool tracks children's eye movements as they watch a video. Autism may be identified early ...
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An eye movement shifts the orientation of the coil to induce an electric current, which is translated into horizontal and vertical eye position. The second technique is an eye tracker . This device, while somewhat more noisy, is non-invasive and is often used in human psychophysics and recently also in instructional psychology.
Her book Sensory Integration and the Child, first published in the 1970s, was a means of helping families, therapists, and educators of children with sensory-processing difficulties and sensory processing disorders to better organize and improve self-regulation of body and environmental sensory inputs. [1] [2]
The Bates method is an ineffective and potentially dangerous alternative therapy aimed at improving eyesight.Eye-care physician William Horatio Bates (1860–1931) held the erroneous belief that the extraocular muscles caused changes in focus and that "mental strain" caused abnormal action of these muscles; hence he believed that relieving such "strain" would cure defective vision.
This "Figure Eight" exercise works the muscles differently by moving the head and keeping the eyes in place. Stare at a fixed object straight ahead. Close one eye.
Growing up in the segregated city of St. Louis, Missouri, in the early 1960s, I had never seen an African American person until age 5. While I didn’t yet understand race or racial inequality, he ...