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When Vision Therapy Feels Like a Debate: Binary Thinking, Performance, and Our Responsibility as Vision Therapists

Most of us can picture the patient immediately. The one who finishes an activity and asks, “So what did you learn from that?”, or the patient who performs a task reasonably well and then questions why it remains in the program at all. The session begins to feel less like Vision Therapy and more like an ongoing audit, where each

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a life changed…

Close to two years ago, I wrote a post entitled the little battlefields which told the story of my patient at the time, “T”.  She had just finished first grade and during an initial session, told me her teacher essentially told her that her intelligence was inadequate for the first grade. Here’s an excerpt from that post: My mind was spinning.

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A Sit Down – with Dr. Mary Beck

A Sit Down – with Dr. Mary Beck For the benefit of our readers, can you detail your background, history, and explain how you are involved in Developmental Optometry? Hi!  I am Dr. Mary Beck.  I recently had a name change a year ago, so many people still know me as Dr. McMains. I am a Las Vegas Native with

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