孩子视觉异常引起的行为问题较严重,讨教方法

jmc0623

不知道国内有没有视觉治疗的医生，你可以打听一下，我们这边也只有一个医生 ，通过
视觉治疗（戴不同的特殊眼镜）效果很大 。如果国内没有，你可以到韩国来一次，因为如果你不能每周治疗也没关系，视觉治疗医生可以配特殊眼镜给你，你在家让他戴，几个月后在复查，医生会再给他配。我们这儿有个父母是从香港过来的，他也是用这个办法

jmc0623

是的，看上去类似于斜视治疗，很多视觉感觉异常的孩子也伴随斜视问题。从楼主所说的孩子的情况，我想可能也属于这种情况。但视觉治疗不只是光斜视治疗那么简单 ，每个孩子的情况不同。我的孩子看上去好像没什么视觉问题，但他不能与我对视，这也算一种视觉感觉异常，他治疗了4个月左右，我感到的变化是他的确对视的次数多了，而且还能和我对视
20多秒。

好了，不写了，免得别人以为我在打广告 你可以先去医院检查有没有斜视，如果有，医院也可以治，你可以先在国内治。家长都不容易，能在国内治的还是在国内治好。

jmc0623

已经发了悄悄话

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你说的训练课上的对视是在老师的引导下能数到50 ，我说的是孩子能自然的与我们目光对视，和长时间的对视（不用引导)，当然我不是说训练不重要，我们的孩子一定不能忽略训练。不过，如果能同时进行视觉治疗，效果会更好
关于视觉治疗 ,这里有几篇视觉治疗和自闭症儿童的介绍，你也可以上网查查

Autism And Vision

Vision problems are common with autism and many times are overlooked. Normal autistic behaviors, such as: poor eye contact, looking though or beyond objects, extreme aversion to light, unusual reaction to sight, lack of reciprocal play, inordinate fear of heights or lack of appropriate fear of heights and stemming, could be visual symptoms.

Kyle's story is one that his mom wants as many people to know so his frustration does not have to be repeated. While in a park, when he was three years old, Kyle walked over a 50 foot cliff. Years later, when he had a developmental visual evaluation, it was found that he lacked depth perception. No wonder he had walked over the cliff. In grade school, on his Individualized Educational Program, the staff wrote that he lacked reciprocal play because throwing and catching a ball was difficult. He had been practicing throwing and catching in occupational therapy for 2?years. After getting prism glasses and six weeks of vision therapy, Kyle was able to throw and catch a ball. Kyle had an unusual gait. It was stiff and flat-footed. He wouldn't run. After vision therapy, he could ride a bike and play on monkey bars. After vision therapy, his gait changed. Kyle would look off into space; he seemed to be tuning out vision to be able to attend to auditory information. With auditory, occupational and vision therapy, his senses started working together instead of only being able to use one or the other.

Kyle's mom wants people to imagine a quiet pool of water. When you drop a pebble in the middle, the calm water ripples outward. One small pebble can create quite an impact. If there is a visual problem, the vision problem can impact motor development. If motor development is impacted, that can impact social and communication skills. Kyle's mom thinks that if they had known about his visual problems when he was much younger, many of his motor and social deficits would not have been so significant.

If you child has a diagnosis on the autism spectrum, be sure they have a visual evaluation with a developmental optometrist as soon as possible. A person does not have to be verbal in order to find out if they are nearsighted, farsighted or have astigmatism. Visual games will be played to see how the person's eyes aim, focus, track, follow, move, see 3-D (depth perception), and process central-peripheral information.

Yoked prisms are special lenses that bend light in the same direction: up, down, left or right. These lenses can have dramatic results by creating a difference in how the world is seen and allows the person to change how their world is perceived. In the visual evaluation, an activity such as throwing and catching a ball, walking up and down stairs or using scissors to cut along a line may be done. While wearing different powers of yoked lenses, the same activity is repeated and evaluated. The doctor may prescribe yoked prisms for special activities or for full time wear. The lenses may use them as an integral part of vision therapy.

Visual problems are common with those that have a diagnosis on the autism spectrum. Having a visual evaluation by a developmental optometrist may lead to treatment that can have a ripple effect on sensory development and integration.

2。
Roberto's Story
Dear Dr. Torgerson,

I wanted to provide this letter to let you know how valuable it has been for us to have Roberto complete Vision Therapy. Roberto was diagnosed when he was four years old with sensory integration dysfunction and more recently as having symptoms consistent with Aspergers’ Syndrome, on the Autism Spectrum. He has been in Occupational Therapy for three years and recently we have been working through an Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy. All together these ( and other treatments) make for a very hectic schedule, especially when you factor school into it; however, we believe Vision Therapy was an integral piece to Roberto’s continuing developmental improvements. He began vision therapy just before his sixth birthday. The homework sessions were frustrating and challenging at times but the therapy visits made it worthwhile for him to see his improvements.

Before vision therapy Roberto struggled with reading and had trouble maintaining eye-contact. Prior to going to Alderwood Vision Therapy, he had seen other optometrists who indicated his eye-teaming issues might require surgery. We were grateful for vision therapy – strengthening his eyes – as opposed to surgery. His overall coordination and level of alertness had been concerns and have impacted his performance at sports and in school. Since completing vision therapy, his ball handling skills and reading have greatly improved. The greatest asset for Roberto, though, was the exceptional staff at Alderwood Vision Therapy. Samantha has a deep understanding of Roberto’s overall issues and incorporated balance, response time, coordination and self regulation into vision therapy. The result has been improved ability to attend while at school and confidence in ball skills and reading.

Children on the autism spectrum end up having numerous appointments and difficult schedules. It may seem overwhelming to add vision therapy. But, I believe the investment Roberto has made in vision therapy, particularly at this age, will serve him for years to come.

I am very grateful for the caring, compassionate and professional staff at Alderwood Vision Therapy and believe it would be beneficial for children on the autism spectrum with vision issues.

Sincerely,

Jeanne Acutanza (mom to Roberto)

3。Temple Grandin, Ph.D, Speaks About Vision Problems in Autism
A world-renowned individual with autism, Temple Grandin spoke to the large gathering of developmental optometrists at the annual meeting of COVD in Phoenix, AZ, in 2003.

In 2006, Vintage Books released an expanded, second edition of Dr. Grandin’s classic book, “Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism”. Dr. Grandin made quite an impression the optometrists in attendance at her lecture and, judging by the content of her book, the converse is true as well.

On page 79, Dr. Grandin writes: “If visual processing problems are suspected, the child should see a developmental optometrist. This is a special eye doctor who can do therapy and exercises to help the processing problems that are inside the brain. In many of these children, the eye itself is normal but faulty wiring in the brain is causing the problem.”

It is vital to understand that children with autism may have normal eyesight (20/20), yet benefit from either special lenses or prisms, and active vision therapy. A new book just published in 2006 by a colleague of ours, Dr. Melvin Kaplan, explores the points made by Temple Grandin in much more detail. Dr, Kaplan’s book is entitled: “Seeing Through New Eyes: Changing the Lives of Children with Autism, Asperger Syndrome and other Developmental Disabilities through Vision Therapy”, and is published by Jessica Kingley Publishers.

jmc0623

你好：

我找了半天才找到这个贴，不知道怎么才能收藏这个贴。今天以琳网站上没有“查询“这一栏，只好一个个的看，所以过了12点才找到。

眼科医生不知道并不奇怪，视觉治疗的医生和眼科医生是不一样的，所以眼科医生如果没有专们学过，也不知道。眼科医生是治疗眼睛的毛病，视觉治疗的治疗的不是是眼睛本身，而是调节视觉神经 。就好像外科医生知道怎么治疗受伤的腿，却不知道怎么做感统来调节容易摔跤的问题，因为这不是腿本身的毛病。视觉治疗就好像用感统来调节运动神经，触觉神经等一样。利用特殊眼镜来调节视觉神经，使其恢复正常的工作。

至于你问的恢复后如果不要眼镜，会不会恢复原状，这个很难回答，如果有斜视的话，有可能在发，不过，即使在发，我想也比当初好很多，我觉得这并不是个担心的问题，大不了再戴眼镜。关键是现在能不能恢复才是最重要。

至于资料，说实在，韩国也只有一个治疗师，可见这是个偏门，所以我也没有什么好资料（你可以上英文网站去艘艘看）。治疗师的日程紧得很，我这个月也只预约到2次见他的机会，所以我也没时间和他长谈，他也没时间。我以前有个机会和他聊一次，他说的那些专业词，我也听得一头雾水。我是一位妈妈介绍我去的，他的孩子视觉问题以前很严重，还有斜视，治了一年半，现在恢复了，我是看到他的孩子的效果后去的，所以自己没有对视觉治疗太多的研究。我只能给你提过我有限的消息，判断还是得有父母来决定

如果国内有相关的治疗师，别忘了告诉我，这边的费用好贵

jmc0623

天使：

正常的视觉神经是看重点，而忽略细节，就好像我们看画，主要集中看重要的部分，而不会去看树上有几片叶一样，如果什么都看，当然就注意力分散了。治疗师就说我儿子的视觉散，我的孩子也存在注意力不集中的问题。以前一边走路一边看这看那，所以我们得常提醒“看前面，看路“ 以前不知道为什么，闷得很，现在想起来孩子的行动都是有原因的

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年龄越小越好治

jmc0623

冯版和kevenman2说得很对，视觉治疗师给我孩子测的时候也是一只眼的眼珠向里,一个向外的。