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Are you . . . a PARENT searching for the right interventions for your child? . . . a PROFESSIONAL looking to enhance your treatments?. . .an EDUCATOR exploring innovative ideas for the classroom?. . .an ADULT trying to regain your health? Then this is the ONLY guide to autism, ADD and learning disabilities you need to . . . Discover how load factors accumulate and trigger symptoms; Learn about the role of vision and visual issues in ASD; Find out why a diagnosis doesn't determine treatment; Regain hope and optimism for your children and students! Editor Patricia S. Lemer is Co-founder and Executive Director of Developmental Delay Resources (DDR). She is a nationally certified counselor and has worked as an advocate for children with autism and related disorders for 40 years. Includes contributions from more than 20 authors..
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This popular manual introduces the organization and analysis of clinical optometric data used in writing prescriptions for glasses. This edition has been greatly expanded to include new information on accommodative disorders and fixation disparity (among others). Case reports integrated throughout the text illustrate the management process..
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This updated new edition is a practical guide to the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of systemic disorders as they relate to primary eye care. It incorporates a multidisciplinary approach, from the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms, to testing and diagnosis methods, to medical and surgical management. Clinical Medicine in Optometric Practice, 2nd Edition provides the reader with the information needed to make informed decisions about patient management, such as identifying symptoms and their related disorders, and knowing when to refer patients to a medical specialist.

• Shows how the wide range of medical conditions and their therapeutic strategies impact the delivery of eye care.
• Familiarizes the reader with the conditions that are encountered in practice, those that may present with ocular manifestations, and those that have significant importance to medicine in general.
• Organized in a practical, easily accessible format.
• Uses case presentations to demonstrate clinical test interpretation, differential diagnosis, treatment, and the development of a prognosis.

• Reflects the most current technologies in examination and testing.
• Features all-new illustrations in full color, illustrating systemic disorders, the physical exam, videotaping, dermatological conditions, and much more.
• Includes a new chapter on vascular disease, especially important since optometrists are sometimes the first to notice these types of changes.
• Contains new information on cardiovascular disease and carotid disease, including the effects that stroke may have on the patient.

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State University of New York, New York City. Optometric Problem-Solving Series> Textbook for optometry students on treating low vision in adults and children with devices or adaptive techniques. Companion to Functional Assessment of Low Vision, 1996, by Rosenthal, Bruce P. .
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THE COMPLETE OPTOMETRIC ASSISTANT will be your valued guide through all of the above. Sarah Morgan draws on her experience as an optometrist teaching optometric assistants to take you step-by-step and with clarity and authority through each of these areas and more in one handy volume. Comprehensive and extremely practical, this book will be indispensable reading for all front-line practice staff, as well as being enormously useful to students and dispensing opticians..
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The book provides the reader with the information necessary to appropriately evaluate, diagnose, and clinically manage patients with functional vision disorders such as vergence and accommodative disorders, oculomotor dysfunction, incipient and progessing myopia, and vision disorders related to reading and classroom performance..
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This book explores the relationship between vision and learning and the role of optometrists in the assessment and management of learning related vision problems. It discusses normal child development, the learning process, learning disabilities, the relationship between vision and learning, and models for managing vision problems affecting learning. It is also of interest to health care practitioners involved in the evaluation and treatment of children and adults with learning difficulties. Instructor resources are available; please contact your Elsevier sales representative for details.

• Presents an organized, easy-to-follow approach to the diagnosis and treatment of learning-related vision problems.
• Each chapter contains key terms and chapter review questions making it more appealing to the student and instructor.
• Includes appendices containing sample reports, sample questionnaires, sample letters, a bibliography, and case histories showing the reader how to use the material from the book in practice.
• Well respected authors and contributors provide authoritative coverage of the topic.

• Expanded information on the use of colored lenses and reading.
• New chapter on reading disorders that covers how children learn to read, teaching methods, optometric assessment, and management of dyslexia.
• Chapters have been updated with new computer software options, including computer aided vision therapy, perceptual home therapy system, and temporal visual processing program.
• Updated testing battery, including new tests, visual processing speed, and optometric use of IQ screening tests such as K-BIT.
• Expanded coverage of psycho education evaluation includes substantial updates with new test instruments, such as WISC.
• Substantial revisions based on literature review for last 10 years.
• New and updated illustrations.

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