Podcast 145: Lecture

This is a presentation I gave to a group of occupational therapists on how to evaluate the visual system of spectrum disorder children. I discuss topics like lazy eye, strabismus, neurological imbalances, glasses prescriptions for children, and color therapy which are modalities that I use to help children reach their potential. Enjoy the show! If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com. SUMMARY KEYWORDS eyes, pupil, reflex, vision, therapy, prescription, kids, stigmatism, dullness, prisms, color, visual, relates, gestation, state, means, pupil size, arousal, farsighted, number 00:05 Hello everyone, its Dr. Sam, I'd like to welcome you to my EyeClarity podcast. This is a show that offers cutting edge information on how to improve your vision and overall wellness through holistic methods. I so appreciate you spending part of your day with me. If you have questions you can send them to Hello at Dr. Sam Berne calm. Now to the latest EyeClarity episode. First of all wears glasses and when what you might want to expand upon there is actually what is the prescription? And where that would be valuable to me would be you know, are they farsighted? Are they near sighted do they wear prisms? Are did they have astigmatism? Do they wear bifocals? And why that's important is that over time? What I would like to teach you is the behavioral manifestations of what does it mean to be farsighted? What does it mean to be near sighted in terms of behavior, spatial understanding posture movements, emotional responses. So just as an example, if somebody is near sighted, they tend to be very defensive. And it can be physically defensive, it can be emotionally defensive. There's usually a trauma related to nearsightedness. And you could also put on there you know, when they got the first prescription, was it at infancy was when they were a toddler because the earlier they get the prescription, the more the the eyes have taken on some pre verbal imprint. What I've seen is the higher the number, the earlier the vision problem has occurred. And this can even go back into gestation you know this, this opens up a whole other conversation, say somebody who's highly farsighted or highly near sighted, I asked questions about well what happened in gestation, you know, so, and then it comes down to on the reflex level, the fear paralysis and the morrow, it just gives you information. And then you could get into things like strabismus and amblyopia could also be part of that as well. For example, I was working with a child the other day that amblyopia in the left eye and we discovered in gestation, that she had been laying on her left side. And, you know, there was ended up being a breech birth and I associates wanted to do surgery on the eye because there was a bit of a esotropia as well. And I said, No way, we're not doing that. There was Tor to call us. So there's, there's things to understand about that prescription. On the other side of it farsighted. You know those, those folks tend to push the world away. So they want things a lot bigger than they really are and their tonicity their arousal is usually lower. So by being able to insert the prescription, then at one of our classes, we could go into how the prescription relates to a person behaviorally. And so on. The third condition, the stigmatism is a twist in the body. And this sometimes is related to neck issues, cervical compression, some spinal issues. And so, again, knowing that there's a stigmatism and how that might affect postural Lee, that might affect some of the other reflex things that you're doing. Based on the handout that you You gave me I've been studying that and seeing how myopia hyperopia and astigmatism would relate to those reflexes and where you might want to jump into it.