All three of my children have vision needs, on top of their ASD needs. I have found it difficult to find a eye doctor who really accommodates to children and or those with special needs. I can find pediatric dentists, but not eye doctors. Over the years we have been to at least five different eye doctors. We have also tried vision therapy at two different locations. I find it hard to find a location close by, that is friendly for kids and special needs individuals, and yet still reasonably bills… read more
I been told to practice the picture symbols before as well with my kids. We have so much to work on with my son vision therapy homework is not always top on my list. Appreciate all feedback.
My son was diagnosed with an eye tracking and visual perception disorder before we found out about the Asperger's. We did eye therapy for 5 months with good results; however, we still are not there yet. He still needs more, but we are having difficulty with him doing the eye homework, so we had to stop for a bit. I don't know how to make him do it. It doesn't work if he doesn't do the homework!
They do hav ped spec for eye,
We hav one with a lazy hav been seeing dr mark for a year now and have had no troubles. He is a pedeatric eye dr prob what u need. First one was not,after i told him kade is autistic,he handed me a paper with symbols on it told me to teach him so they could test him. Was so mad left never went bac.then regular dr sent us to ped opthma, he is great.you can see he is excited when we hav a break through.
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