Thank you Polarbear! I really wanted to hear your thoughts especially in light of your experience. Thank you so much! I also loved hearing that VT has made such a good impact on your DD. Gives me hope because I am worried even though the doctor was very positive that the therapy will help tremendously. It's a little disconcerting that there seem to be really no other way to "treat" the vision problem ... Oh, and yes, we were told to proceed with pretty much all vision therapy for the strabismus. It doesn't seem that surgery has a good success rate at all and may cause more problems. Lenses don't seem to be a viable option because other than the strabismus he has 20/20 vision (she mentioned them but didn't think they would help much - she'd know more about that when she gives him the test whre his eyes get dialated I think- that was the only test we haven't done yet)... So we are only left with VT it seems. I just feel sad about my little guy - I think he has a tremendous amount of intellignece and creativity stuck in an inadequate body
(and yes I know it could be so much worse but you know it's still a bit of a bummer) He wants nothing more than to write stories and yet his hypotonia makes the physical writing so hard for him (as does the visison problem) and he LOVES to read but the vision issues make that so incredibly hard for him.
I looked up Digit Span - it measures verbal memory, concentration, visual reorganziation ability and attention span. So I guess "visual reorganization" is a vison affected taks? maybe?) Letter-Number Sequencing measures attention span, short term auditory working memeory and sequencing abilities. So not sure about those and the low scores. I do know that the vision and the hyotnia tire him so much and affect his ability to concentrate so perhaps he was just "done" ykim? Much fatigue is caused by so much close work whne you have that kind of visiual issue and my DS has hypotonia which is also fatiguing (when he is made to sit and do work at a table for long periods).
