I am writing because I am learning my two girls are tending to show signs of Auditory learning. I am not familiar with it. I am researching - trying to find other parents that are or went through this find of their child and some suggestions on how to help them. My youngest is in Kindergarten and loves school. She isn't reaching her benchmarks as quickly as they would like but she is learning alot.
We have searched around for training for our school personnel and can't find any. In town, local optometrists offer visual training for quite a fee. I used to work for an opthalmologist, who pooh-poohed the visual training, and I can't see that anything optometrists do ( the assistants do it) is anything we can't do with some training. Convergence insufficiency is the obvious choice for working with students, but as you mentioned, visual overload and shifting fixation are also problem areas we see in our school, --with evidence we can put out in terms of work samples and observations-- that we could use training in and address through programs that may take only ten minutes a day. So, to get back to the real question, do you know of any training around that is available? Some programs, such as Balametrics, inadvertently include some exercises that are helpful, I believe, but something "bonafide" ?? I am new to this posting business so ended up posting this on my whiteboard first... copied it in here... We are near Sheridan, Oregon, so have sent some students to training at Forest Grove (Pacific University) or a Silverton optometrist... I'm not sure these are really glove fittings for what they need, but they have proved to be sporadically helpful. Too bad about the cost and inconvenience for people it didn't help.
So, I read in the New York Times that convergence insufficiency can affect as many as 1 in 5 people. Wouldn't it make sense for classrooms to have a set of exercises available to address this? Administering these exercises is done by aides or technicians in the office setting --I think teachers or teacher's aides can do it. In special ed we say that what helps special needs kids doesn't hurt "regular" kids; and it often helps them as much as the special ed kids. What do you think?
