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Like the four percent of people who have a binocular vision disorder, he saw his world as “flat”. Worse, he felt broken, and endured lifelong difficulties with reading, concentration, behavior, spatial awareness and more.

Despite his vision challenges, he became a pilot, master boat builder, MBA recipient and life coach – by first hiding his problem, then learning how to adapt to a world he couldn’t see properly.

Reference - Acquired Brain Injury

Fixing My Gaze describes the astonishing experience of gaining 3D stereovision after a lifetime of seeing in only two dimensions. Intensive vision therapy created new neural connections, and with them, a new view of the world. Challenging conventional wisdom that the brain is programmed for life during a critical period in childhood, Barry offers a poignant and revelatory account of our capacity for change.

Reference - Acquired Brain Injury

The Ghost in My Brain is a powerful record of what life is like as a concussive: the endless and exhausting need for creativity as one navigates through days filled with bizarre changes in perception, strange social dilemmas, and sometimes overwhelming sense of alienation. It's also an unforgettabel chronicle of recovery, one that provides a window into the tremendous power of the human brain and offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumas. 

Reference - Acquired Brain Injury

As a brain injury survivor herself, author Carole Starr knows the depth of grief and loss of self that accompany brain injury, the challenge of coping with symptoms that are misunderstood by many and the peace that can come from accepting a new life and a new self. Carole describes the journey in a way that survivors, caregivers and professionals can relate to and learn from.

Reference - Acquired Brain Injury

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley’s Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past and her present.

These are the most dangerous stories of my life. The ones I have avoided, the ones I haven’t told, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life, and then went another, better way than they did in childhood, they became lighter and easier to carry.

Reference - Acquired Brain Injury

Dear Jillian: Vision Therapy Changed My Life Too shares the amazing and inspirational true stories of twenty-two individuals, both children and adults, who have had their lives changed by optometric vision therapy. This book is a personal, deeply moving, and thought-provoking look into the lives of these people. Vision therapy helped those struggling with autism, Down syndrome, stroke, sports-related concussion, traumatic brain injury, polyneuritis, anxiety, learning problems and other vision problems such as amblyopia, strabismus, and convergence insufficiency. They all credit their success to vision therapy.

Reference - Acquired Brain Injury

Dr. Lynn F. Hellerstein, author of the award-winning book, See It. Say It. Do It!: The Parent's & Teacher's Action Guide to Creating Successful Students & Confident Kids (HiClear Publishing, LLC, 2010) has utilized vision therapy with children and adults with learning related vision problems, vision perception deficits or brain injuries, as well as enhancing visual performance for athletes. She has inspired thousands of people to improve their vision and enhance their lives. An international speaker, Dr. Hellerstein has published extensively on vision related topics and is a faculty member at several optometry schools. She serves as a consultant to schools and rehabilitation facilities.

Reference - Visual Learning

Family members want to spend quality time together. Once kids begin school, much of the family's free time during the week can be spent doing homework, leaving little time for fun.

The truth is, it does not have to be this way. Students don't need to spend hours and hours doing homework every night. Learning Visual Secrets For School Success helps families spend less time doing homework and more time living an enjoyable, productive life.

Dr. Montecalvo learned first hand how hours of homework can hurt quality family time. She used visual secrets with her own children and patients so they could realize more school success and have more free time to pursue their interests and reach their goals.

Reference - Visual Learning

Learning to See = Seeing to Learn: Vision, Learning & Behavior by Dr. Patrick Quaid et al, will unlock the connection between eyesight, education, and behaviors in children. How can you have 20/20 vision and not see well? Why are some very bright children unable to concentrate while reading and are unable to memorize what they see? This book will be especially interesting for teachers, educators, and parents with children who struggle to learn, are on an IEP, or who have been identified with ADD or ADHD. Learn about visual processing and why some children and adults struggle to see and understand what everyone else does naturally. Discover how challenges with visual processing can be corrected. This book will assist those in special education to add visual processing to the list of indications when assessing students with learning challenges. The important work of those supporting special education in the school system often leads to the development of an IEP for the student.

Reference - Visual Learning

DAVID L. COOK, O.D., F.A.A.O., F.C.O.V.D., is a clinician, author, educator, and one of the nation's leading authorities on vision therapy. He is the author of the new book "Biomythology: The Skeptic’s Guide to Charles Darwin and the Science of Persuasion." His previous books, "Visual Fitness" and "When Your Child Struggles," provide simple explanations about vision therapy. His professional articles have appeared in top journals including The Journal of the American Optometric Association, The American Journal of Optometry and Physiological Optics, and The Journal of Vision Development. Dr. Cook is currently pioneering the use of 3D movies in the treatment of crossed eyes and has lectured on subject to various national groups. 

Reference - Visual Learning

Proposes to show how children can be prepared to develop their full potential as 'thinking' human beings. The activities or 'games' described provide a general foundation which should help the child to deal successfully with specific academic subjects. With Additional Thoughts.

Reference - Visual Learning