Originally Posted by HappilyMom
Originally Posted by blackcat
The OT is trying to get us to go to a developmental optometrist, saying she can hook him up to a computer to see how his eyes are tracking. My DS had a brain injury and skull fractures on Dec. 31st that paralyzed a cranial nerve and caused one eye to be "stuck" for several months and we're not sure if it's completely normal now or not. Since he reads so fast and fluently and his eyes appear to be tracking together, the neuro-opthamologist thinks his eyes are fine. But the OT is completely unconvinced.

The developmental optometrist testing was very helpful for us. FWIW, our DS6 had 20/20 vision and was tested as >12.9 grade equivalent for reading on the WISC yet he has tons of eye issues with tracking, accommodation, and teaming. (He also scores in the 2nd% on the Beery VMI which reflects both his visual and motor challenges.) So really great reading skills CAN co-exist with vision challenges in children with high IQs.

DS's beery VMI was Ok (around 63rd percentile) and the peceptual vision test was over 90th (with some of the subtests like visual memory being 99+ percentile). DS has a lot of problems tracking his eyes on command and I'm not sure why, but they dramatically cross like what happened when he had the nerve palsy (and that's what the OT saw when she assessed him--she was asking DS to follow her pointer or finger with his eyes and he couldn't do it at all). But when he's just moving them naturally (for instance reading), they look Ok and aligned. I'm not sure if we will go to the developmental optometrist yet. I wouldn't mind getting another opinion if our insurance will cover it. I'm curious what this computer test is that the OT was talking about, because that would probably be the only way to get an objective result since DS can't track on command when someone is watching his eyes.