TIMELY INFORMATION ABOUT SCHOOL & YOUR CHILD!
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School is out!
Yes, getting out for the summer is important every year; BUT, this year it is far more important than ever. Your child, the teachers, and you have gone through the horror of state mandated digital learning on a computer screen over Zoom. No schooling could be more damaging to learning and especially the vision system. |
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Take that Chrome book and be certain it gets coated with dust for the duration of summer vacation. Hopefully you can convince the school district, as informed districts are starting, and return to books in the fall.
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Do not go to summer school this year. Your child will be overburdened enough when school starts again.
Get your kids out in the sun: run, jump, skip, roll in the grass, play ball, laugh, tell stories, swim, splash in the water, discover mud again, play with the dog, participate in sandlot games, take pictures, just plain have fun. Your and your child's vision will be better for it . . . and yes, your child will be better prepared for learning when school begins. |
Yet, this past school year some children only endured their time at the desk with the tablets and unanswerable questions.
Is your child among the 25% who could not keep up with the rest of the class? Does your child have to revisit the same grade? Will your child need special attention next year that ads to the burden your child had to endure last year? Maybe your child has a visually related learning problem. After all, experts say at least 80% of learning takes place through the vision system.
Yet your child passed the school vision screening program, you say. Unfortunately, well intended with the start in 1947, at best, screening detects only those with good grades and poor eyesight. Even then, it is too late to reverse most of the eyesight conditions. At worst, it gives a false impression vision is not causing your child’s learning problem. Maybe you have that false impression.
Remember school screening started in 1947 and minimally changed in 2005 with no recognizable difference. In other words, it has not changed since 1947. California School Screening does not detect a visually related learning problem. Vision processing, the most important vision skill in visually related learning problems, was not put in widespread treatment until 1988.
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Give us a call at 334-2020 and find out if a visually related learning problem exists and have it treated before school stats again. |
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Could you or your teachers tell if this child needed a vision referral? Probably not!
She has three very evident vision conditions:
1. She has a vision development problem evidenced by the fist pencil grip.
2. She has a binocular vision condition evidenced by the twist of her head making her nose block her right eye.
3. She is or about to become nearsighted since she is too close to her paper and holding the pencil near the tip.
Teachers attending Dr. Henshaw’s training would know the above and more. Go to How can I tell if my student or child has a visually related learning problem? Better yet, bring your child in to be sure there is no vision condition hindering your child’s school performance. Call 334-2020.
She has three very evident vision conditions:
1. She has a vision development problem evidenced by the fist pencil grip.
2. She has a binocular vision condition evidenced by the twist of her head making her nose block her right eye.
3. She is or about to become nearsighted since she is too close to her paper and holding the pencil near the tip.
Teachers attending Dr. Henshaw’s training would know the above and more. Go to How can I tell if my student or child has a visually related learning problem? Better yet, bring your child in to be sure there is no vision condition hindering your child’s school performance. Call 334-2020.
A recent teacher discussion on Facebook
Recently a teacher in discussing digital learning mentioned, “... 2 years ago 9 of my 24 students had ... prescription ...glasses, last year it was ... closer to 5 or 6 but that is still a lot.”
Vision conditions she was able to observe varied from 38% to 25%. We already know 25% of our students are failing, and that stat is too many. My patients don’t show yearly for their exams as advised. Some insurance companies advise two years, and not all do that. Some kids are prescribed glasses but don’t wear them. Thus, some of the 75% to 62% not observed to wear glasses may need them. However, the need for compensative eyeglasses (incorrectly labeled corrective) is not the only vision condition. The more common conditions are related to binocular vision. At least 60% of my patients have binocular vision difficulty.
An educator’s concern may be directed to conditions interfering with learning. The Dartmouth Study done decades ago found myopia has nothing to do with learning. The opposite is true. The good learners have the worst visual acuity. Visual acuity is the only finding our antiquated misleading school screening uses. That may be why the good learners wear glasses. Binocular vision does affect learning, but by about only one grade level. The one factor that is involved in learning, vision processing, isn’t even considered in school screening and missed by the many eye doctors. Vision processing difficulty can bring you from an A to an F. We haven’t even considered reduced vision fields from traumatic brain injury, much more common than thought. It is safe to say 75% of our students have a vision condition that in varying degrees interfere with their lives. Why do we want to worsen it with digital learning?
Recently a teacher in discussing digital learning mentioned, “... 2 years ago 9 of my 24 students had ... prescription ...glasses, last year it was ... closer to 5 or 6 but that is still a lot.”
Vision conditions she was able to observe varied from 38% to 25%. We already know 25% of our students are failing, and that stat is too many. My patients don’t show yearly for their exams as advised. Some insurance companies advise two years, and not all do that. Some kids are prescribed glasses but don’t wear them. Thus, some of the 75% to 62% not observed to wear glasses may need them. However, the need for compensative eyeglasses (incorrectly labeled corrective) is not the only vision condition. The more common conditions are related to binocular vision. At least 60% of my patients have binocular vision difficulty.
An educator’s concern may be directed to conditions interfering with learning. The Dartmouth Study done decades ago found myopia has nothing to do with learning. The opposite is true. The good learners have the worst visual acuity. Visual acuity is the only finding our antiquated misleading school screening uses. That may be why the good learners wear glasses. Binocular vision does affect learning, but by about only one grade level. The one factor that is involved in learning, vision processing, isn’t even considered in school screening and missed by the many eye doctors. Vision processing difficulty can bring you from an A to an F. We haven’t even considered reduced vision fields from traumatic brain injury, much more common than thought. It is safe to say 75% of our students have a vision condition that in varying degrees interfere with their lives. Why do we want to worsen it with digital learning?
...and a moment about school vision screening...Yet your child passed the school vision screening program, you say. Unfortunately, well intended with the start in 1947, at best, screening detects only those with good grades and poor eyesight. Even then, it is too late to reverse most of the eyesight conditions. At worst, it gives a false impression vision is not causing your child’s learning problem. Maybe you have that false impression.
Remember, school screening started in 1947 and minimally changed in 2005 with no recognizable difference. In other words, it has not changed since 1947. California School Screening does not detect a visually related learning problem. Vision processing, the most important vision skill in visually related learning problems, was not in widespread treatment until 1988.