MareRI

No insurance here covers vision therapy. I saw that and was intrigued. We went to an ophthalmologist for K having strabismis (lazy eye) and a slew of other problem and the doc prescribed some useless lens with avery weak prescription and frames (to the tune of $600) then he schedles another appointment and did and infomercial like presentation on his non insurance covered vision therapy.

It was a scam. Asking around that was his spiel. Everyone who went there had to have this infomercial presentation and his uncovered vision therapy.

So we had to go the another doc where she was prescribed a real perscription and the patch and she is nearly at perfect with the lazy eye she will need glasses permanently most likely though.

So now I am wondering is vision therapy useful for focusing? Or with people with SPD. The way this guy did it was not right and the way he did it made me thing it was not even legitimately recognized. Then I see it here and think maybe i was wrong. This guys was about the same amount of money. We declined. They way he did it was too used car salesman like. Plus she needed more than that she had real vision problems. Astigmatism, near and far sighted and then the lazy eye. Its a lot its amazing she does not wear coke bottles!!! lolol...

Best of luck and I hope it all goes smoothly and you get answers to help your guy!!

We have been through the gamut recently. His vision issues (mostly midline shift issues) were noticed first at an eval for fine motor skills...she just happened to notice he didnt shift correctly on a few tests...so we went to a pediatric opthamologist, who concurred that there were midline problems...after that we went to the pedi optometrist (not affiliated with either of the other dr's) and he also agreed with the others. I have spoken to a couple of other people whose children had similar problems (no other astigmatisms or vision issues, etc) and they did seem to benefit from vision therapy. Andrew's actual eyesight is 20/15 which they said was better than 20/20 but he has the focus and midline issues so we'll see how it goes...

That's very interesting. The guy here turned me off completely and its nice to know that vision therapy actually helps people!! When i see it i used to roll my eyes oh that scam again... One doc not doing it properly... K has horrible vision not yet at 20/20 (almost) and it was waaay worse that many years ago so it is like apples and oranges and he was using VT for everything when it should be used when needed or specific needed.

i learned somethign new today!! Hope it helps him quickly!!!