He just had another progress eval today, and the OD said he just doesn't have the stability and stamina to hold the focus once he gets it. His session time has been cut in half to focus on this issue only. He gives up easily, it's something we are trying to work on with him. She says he can make a close object one but gets frustrated and gives up holding it. She said "saw/was" is from this issue. So I guess I have the answer for this, or at least until this is fixed. If he can hold the image and still reverses then there are more issues. She said his depth perception is 100% improved :) The PS called me back and left a message as said they don't test homeschoolers. I thought they had to and will look into this. Well back to my first question, she said she is holding off on the perceptual issues to work only on the remaining convergence.

I was surprised that my son said he got headaches all the time when the OD asked him. He is still in VT, but says he no longer gets them. I would think the headaches are only secondary to any visual issues. It can't be the only reason for VT.

A check list is a great idea, thanks!

Yes, this is the book I read. I love it, I send the questionnaire to everyone http://www.moodcure.com/take_the_mood_type_questionnaire.html My husband has some major issues. He just can't get going in the morning and has a hard time focusing during the day. He start L-Tyrosine and he has been running in the morning now and seems more upbeat and focused on his work. I also don't see him start the coffee maker till after noon on some days. Very interesting article, thanks for sharing! I agree with you, I would love to see a therapist. The one I went to didn't set me up for CBT after I responded to zoloft, which she said she would. I was disappointed about that and then we moved and lost our insurance. The Inositol sounds promising, but thanks for the heads up on ADHD. I don't know about the hyper part, but I'm pretty scattered and disorganized already :)

Thanks for all the suggestions, I have a lot to look through Weight gain and other side effects that I wanted to try to live without. I may end up on it again, but I just wanted to try out treating it naturally.

a few months ETA: do you still get anxiety even with this regimen? What coping skills do you rely on?

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I'm having *a day*, one of those Would like to hear from anyone treating an anxiety disorder. What is/what's not working for you. I do know what works for me, trouble is I get forgetful to workout every other day, to take Omegas every day, to use a light therapy box. I think I slid off those things for a few weeks now and I'm feeling it, sometimes with HSing, it's a bad combo, feeling like I'm forever messing up my kid in ways I'm not even sure of. If you're still reading, I think you get it. After 3 years of sertraline, I switched to 5-HTP. I think it helps, but what do you use?

HIs left eye isn't shut down, he was turning his head in order to block double vision. He has a progress eval for VT this week. I asked her about skipping small words, and she said that where he is in VT now, that this is not from his vision. This doctor hasn't led me on, she stated in the beginning she is not addressing his reading, just the visual skills needed for reading he is deficient in. No label or diagnoses of dyslexia since we haven't been for evals. His visual dxs are Binocular instability, accommodative insufficiency, accommodative infacility, oculomotor dysfunction, visual motor deficiency, visual processing speed deficiency, lateral/directionality deficiency. I'm just going to wait now. I put in calls to get moving on evals and will talk more indepth with the VT doctor about what he should be able to achieve, given no other issues, at this time with his progress. I think like OhElizabeth said, I would probably benefit from something scripted, b/c I'm just feeling like not trying to figure out anything on my own anymore.

Yes, Aha is out of business. sorry I don't have much help :)

I am not doing anything other than the book, which I guess isn't good. Did you get the training just for your child? Did you chose the Community Educator option?

I should probably switch then. I'll see what happens with testing. I could make the sales pitch to dh that it's for adults too. It still takes him an hour to write a paragraph.

I left a message with the special ed department this morning, this makes total sense. For VT, he has several diagnoses and she said with this perceptual issues, it would take 36 weeks at minimum. and that he is working on both eyes working together at this stage and this is when I would see most improvement in reading. Idk, this year has been rough. We feel isolated and I feel burned out just trying to get the basics done with both my older ones. The PS is supposed to be excellent for kids with any difficulties. Would I be able to outsource remediation to them?

great. Is each book for one whole year?

Pandia press has 25% off this month. I'm thinking about Middle Ages level 2 for my 11 year old and have all the books except the textbook itself. Are you using it this year, if so how do you like it?

Yes, for the 8 year old. I am confused. What would OT do for "right/left confusion" if this only translates into reversals and when reading? Wouldn't we end up doing exercises just like we are doing in VT? I wouldn't pause VT because he does have convergence issues plus other things. There has been visual progress with VT, double vision is corrected, etc. I've been just worried that if I did take him in before that with visual diagnoses, he would automatically get a dyslexia label if they were not corrected. I did think he was doing well with Recipe for Reading. He now knows the letter sounds, but has the classic flags for dyslexia: interchanges or skips on/in a/the at and all the little words, doesn't recognize the word he figured out the page before, saw/was. He sees the first letter and guesses the rest of the word. This makes my husband, despite being dyslexic himself, say he needs a tutor with a formal setting b/c he isn't trying enough or too used to guessing, or he just needs more practice. So I have the VT doc saying it's right/left confusion and Dh saying it's lack of effort. Ugh, wasn't thinking tutoring would be so expensive. I'll do the Barton screening this weekend, and I left a message to set up an NP eval. Budget is an issue, so how much better is Barton than Recipe for Reading? I know Barton is recommended a lot here, they are a both OG.

We use CLE, but the kids still like ringing up their points on Khan Academy. You could use that for supplement. My son had new to him lessons in the first LU and there has been plenty of repetition in the later units. There is always a "we remember" section that brings back work from the previous grade.

Do you mean additional things we could do at home? Would an NP eval tell me if he needed OT or include this in the eval?

My son is really struggling with right/left confusion in vision therapy. He keeps getting bumped down a level with slap tap - not sure if it's called the same thing everywhere. We are 30+ weeks into VT. So can you please tell me how long your dc was in VT and when the right/left issues really seemed to click if they were an issue? I know this has to be a YMMV sort of thing. I'm frustrated, I'm sure he is too, so we are taking next steps to get full evals done and see a reading tutor who tutors the VT doctor's child with convergence issues using and O-G reading method. WE got to a review section of the O-G system we are using at home and a lot of reversals still, short e confusion. Some days he is just fine, others more of a mess...

Thank you! I appreciate the reply and research. I probably should have found that myself first :) I am totally up all the expenses to see if it's worth deducting.

title pretty much says it all. Paying out of pocket, can we claim VT, does anyone know?

Are there any supplements that would support the process of going through vision therapy. Right now my DS8 only takes a multivitamin. I was thinking to get an Omega 3 gummy for him. Anything else that you would recommend? Thanks

I hear you! Soda is the worst! I kicked the Coke habit a while ago because I really felt like there is something fishy with their recipe. It's so hard to stop craving that particular soda. But I still crave root beer. At the time, I started doing a lot of research on Coca-Cola because learning more about how harmful their business practices are to the countries they manufacturer in and how they use psychology to hook us made it easier to ditch it. Maybe getting mad at it would help you? Here's what I noticed first week without added sugar: 1. it's really hard to avoid. My calcium supplement has 2g of corn syrup as the first ingredient. 2. if I ate some by accident, even if I was full I had to fight the urge to keep eating. It was like my body was looking for the rest of the jolt and wanted to reach that sugar peak. 3. I never really realized how sugar fuels anxiety I experience. It was blocking that nice glow feeling you get when you eat something healthy. Everyone feels a little anxious when they are hypoglycemic. And eating something healthy after that should give you a nice boost of good feeling endorphins. But I think sugar blocks that. This is really important for me b/c I'm on the journey to get off my Rx and deal with anxiety attacks naturally. This next week I want to add GTF chromium as a supplement and ease into working out. I'm loving the replies, great to read your thoughts and successes.

This is so encouraging!

I'm sorry OhElizabeth if I confused you. The VT never said he's dyslexic.