The College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) has posted its current issue of Optometry & Vision Development online and invites all to read the full-text articles free of charge.
Well known and respected researcher, Dr. WC Maples, in his article Frequency and Types of Pediatric Symptoms in a Clinical Population, notes that children seen in a large optometric clinic tended to express that their most serious symptoms were related to problems in vision perception (vision information processing), binocularity (eye coordination) and accommodation (focusing). This is particularly significant since these areas readily define those who often have learning related vision disorders that can adversely affect school performance.
Clinician, Dr. Kauser Sharieff, in her article, From Braille to Quilting: A Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Case Report, takes the reader into the life of a patient who suffered an acquired brain injury and then recovered much of her quality of life with the help of optometric vision therapy.
Under the practice management section Dr. Nathan Bonilla-Warford writes in his article, Social Digital Media – A New and Powerful Way to Educate Your Patients about Optometric Vision Therapy, writes that, "Patients with visual problems continue struggling with undiagnosed and untreated vision dysfunction. This happens despite our best efforts at educating patients, community involvement and by using increasingly expensive traditional marketing tools, such as the phone book, print advertising and television/radio marketing." He goes on to inform the reader that Social Digital Media can be a major force in informing the public about the eye problems they have and how COVD members can treat these problems. Other articles by practice management experts discuss Staff Problems: Proficiency or Attitude (by Mark R. Wright, OD, FCOVD), and Doctor-Staff Relations: Don't Underestimate the Power of "Hello", (by Toni Bristol).