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    More Reasons Your Child Needs an Eye Exam, Not a Vision Screening
    Amanda R. Zeller Manley, OD, FCOVD
    • Jan 14, 2014
    • 3 min

    More Reasons Your Child Needs an Eye Exam, Not a Vision Screening

    The most recent Review of Optometry has three news items emphasizing the importance of infant and child eye and vision evaluation– not just a screening done by the pediatrician or school nurse. The first describes how retinoblastoma, a rare but potentially fatal eye cancer found in children, can be detected by the appearance of a white pupil in baby photos. It used to be thought that early stage eye cancer couldn’t be detected this way, but a recent study found that early dis
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    Is it a Behavior Problem? Or a Vision Problem?
    Amanda R. Zeller Manley, OD, FCOVD
    • Dec 3, 2013
    • 2 min

    Is it a Behavior Problem? Or a Vision Problem?

    I recently had a discussion with a parent about behavior and vision problems. A mom of photo from Newsbusters.org one of our patients told me that the biggest change she has noticed is that, “It’s not nuclear war anymore,” when she tells her daughter it’s homework time. This makes perfect sense to me, and we hear similar stories all the time. If you, as an adult, were asked to do something frustrating, arduous and painful, on a daily basis, you would eventually refuse. You mi
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    Scientific Basis for an Accommodation Already in Use in VT Practices
    Amanda R. Zeller Manley, OD, FCOVD
    • Sep 29, 2013
    • 2 min

    Scientific Basis for an Accommodation Already in Use in VT Practices

    Image courtesy of adamr/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net. —Amanda Zeller Manley, O.D., F.C.O.V.D. It’s always nice when research proves the benefit of what we’ve already been doing in clinic. For the last several years, as e-readers have become more prevalent, I have been recommending them to many of my patients. In our clinic, we have found that by increasing the font size (which also increases letter/word spacing and decreases the number of words per line), many of our vision therapy
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