Eye Power: An Updated Report on Vision Therapy [Paperback]

Ann M. Hoopes (Author), Stanley A. Appelbaum (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1439221790 | ISBN-13: 978-1439221792 | Publication Date: May 20, 2009 | Edition: 1

"Eye Power" is a must read to help open doors of insight and help gain answers for those who struggle with ADHD, Autism, Acquired Brain Injury, sports and learning. "Eye Power" can help turn your challenges into success! Enjoy this very easy to read book that can greatly improve your family and friends quality of life. Learn how a reluctant reader can become an avid reader by doing the procedures described in this book.

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About the Author

Dr. Appelbaum, a Fellow of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development, is in private practice with his wife Barbara Bassin, OTR/L, BCP in Bethesda and Annapolis, Maryland, combining Vision Therapy with Sensory Integration Occupational Therapy in the same office. He is Board Certified in Vision Therapy, and lectures on topics related to infant vision development, visually related learning difficulties, visual problems of special needs children and adults, bright children and adults who do not like to or get fatigue when they read, vision rehabilitation for TBI/stroke, strabismus, amblyopia, and the visual demands of computer use and sports vision. Dr. Appelbaum, author of Eye Power (www.EyePowerBook.com), is an Adjunct Clinical Professor at the Southern College of Optometry and has served on the Board of Sensory Integration International. He has also served on the Board of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development and has medical staff privileges at the Maryland Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital and the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, DC, where he treats patients with visual problems associated with brain injury.

Product Details

• Paperback: 180 pages
• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing; 1 edition (May 20, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1439221790
• ISBN-13: 978-1439221792
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,661 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #16 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Aging > Eye Problems

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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Vision is much more than 20/20., June 25, 2009

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Sue Barry (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eye Power: An Updated Report on Vision Therapy (Paperback)

Eye Power should be read by educators, parents particularly those whose children struggle in school, athletes, people who are cross-eyed, walleyed, or have a lazy eye, and individuals who have suffered from a stroke or other brain injury. How can one book appeal to so many different people? Because Eye Power is about vision and visual skills, and we need these skills to read, hit a baseball, focus our attention while also taking in the space around us, and move with accuracy. This book describes how optometric vision therapy can improve visual skills and, in so doing, vastly improve a person's life. The home vision therapy procedures described at the end of the book are fun to do and illustrate the book's general principles. Not only is Eye Power clearly written but the Resources section and Glossary are very helpful, the general layout is attractive and playful, and the illustrations are simple and clear.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Book on Vision Therapy, June 3, 2009

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Randy Schulman "MS, OD, FCOVD-Behavioral Opto... (Trumbull, CT 06611) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Eye Power: An Updated Report on Vision Therapy (Paperback)

If you want an easy to read, comprehensive book to learn how vision affects everything that we do and what can be done to treat vision problems, then this is the book to read. Eye Power outlines the vision skills necessary for learning, attention and sports performance, discusses impediments to these skills including brain injury, autism and developmental delays and gives concrete, proven methods of improving those skills in vision therapy. A wonderful resource for educators, parents and professionals alike, Eye Power is a great addition to your library.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor explanations, too much fluff, July 27, 2010

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This review is from: Eye Power: An Updated Report on Vision Therapy (Paperback)

Perhaps I was expecting too much, but I found this book very simplistic, and poorly written. I am a professional and have found in some of my patients many of the problems described in the book. I was hoping for a more in depth explanation than what was provided. This book is definitely written for non professionals, and presents vision therapy as an important treatment for a number of conditions. Yet, there is little to no substantiating evidence presented, and if one accepts everything at face value, they might assume possibly complex medical problems can be explained by poor vision alone.

The book is filled with anecdotal stories and vague references such as "research has shown", without providing enough details of such research from which to determine how effective their treatment actually was. At times the authors use terms that they do not define and are not listed in either the glossary or the index.

I was hoping that at a minimum, some of the exercises could be useful for some of my patients. However, the instructions are not clear and incomplete. For example, The Peripheral Expansion exercise refers to a chart in the book with the instructions to stare at the dot in the center of the chart while looking at surrounding letters. However, there is no dot in the center of the chart.

Another exercise, the Infinity Walk describes walking in a figure eight while "looking at a specific object in the room-a visual
target". However, there is no explanation of where that target should be (e.g. In front, to the side, eye level, ground level), nor what to do with the gaze when turning around.

It's too bad the book wasn't better written as there is a need for this information. Unfortunately, the style in which it is written makes it easy for critically thinking patients and professionals to dismiss the content.