Good COVD doctor in Northern Virginia/DC area

[ElizabethB]

Asking for a friend...she will just look at website and ask questions of a few docs, but if anyone has one they are happy with in the area, I would love to know so I can pass info along.

[1shortmomto4]

Not sure where friend lives but have her check this site out:  http://virginiavisiontherapycenter.com/ They are offering free vision screening on 3/29.  Looks like high reviews everywhere I'm reading and I've yet to find a Doc in this particular general location to be anything but great.  Moons ago I took kiddos to one in Fairfax and it was awful!!!!  Thankfully we ended up with no eye issues (other than regular glasses) because the thought of regular therapy visits to that office would have been awful!!!!  Also, there is a wonderful provided for CAPD in this same area and a great audiologist and ....

[BriannaG]

I don't know if you're still looking but we went to Vision Therapy with Dr. Tsai in Fredericksburg, Va.  http://visionsource-fredericksburg.com/about-us/

 

The therapist's name is Colleen and she was great with my dd.  Here is a link: http://www.optometrists.org/eyecenter/vision_therapy.html

 

Brianna

 

[AngelaVA]

I don't know if you're still looking but we went to Vision Therapy with Dr. Tsai in Fredericksburg, Va. http://visionsource-fredericksburg.com/about-us/

 

The therapist's name is Colleen and she was great with my dd. Here is a link: http://www.optometrists.org/eyecenter/vision_therapy.html

 

Brianna

I was really unhappy with this place. They told me my child had a tracking issue and she needed to a home computer program that they would monitor to the tune of $400. They never monitored it. Refused to do in office therapy, said only this computer program worked for her issue. Every time I called they would tell me something different. The program was incredibly tedious and repetitive and my child seemed to be getting nothing out of it. One part in particular seemed ridiculously long and repetitive. When I called them about it they said it was because that was the part my child needed the most. So I forced her to do it for months, she cried about it every day. Then we went in for a recheck and they said that part of the program wasn't even something she needed (covered an issue she didn't have) and she just had to work through it because "that's just how the software works" (remember I paid $400 for a personalized program they were supposed to monitor). At one point I went in and printed her scores because I did not believe she was improving and Dr Tsai sat there looking at them and read them in reverse order telling me how much my daughter was improving. In other words she pointed at the first few scores my child had gotten and was telling me how much better than they were than the most recent ones she'd gotten! When I pointed out the error she said Colleen would call me about it. Never heard from Colleen again (she's always incredibly hard to get ahold of), and she was the person telling me a different thing every time I called so at this point I just wrote off the $400 and this office. It's not so much the money I'm mad about as the fact that they conned me in to breaking my struggling child's trust by forcing her to do this miserable software program for months and months on end that didn't help her at all. I have know several people who have gone to this office and liked the in office therapy but I would not under any circumstances let them sell you the computer program.

 

 

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[BriannaG]

Wow, AngelaVa that is awful.  You're the first person I've heard of that was so unhappy.   And, quite frankly I would be too.  We went 3 years ago I believe. Colleen always returned my calls but yes she was busy.  We did the computer program after the in office therapy but I don't remember the cost or if it was the same one you did.  My dd hated it as well and the monitoring was done via computer and her scores did improve.  I think she had mostly convergence issues and nothing to the depth that I sometimes hear other kids must deal with on this board.  It helped a lot for where she was at but didn't resolve all her quirks but it was a step. 

 

I do hope you were able to find help for your daughter though.

 

Brianna