An advocate for children diagnosed with dyslexia, specific learning disability, ADHD, autism, conduct disorder, oppositional defiance disorder, and any other students in special education, Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S provides valuable information regarding Child Find regulations and why students with IEP's and 504 plans are not being comprehensively assessed. Strategies will be provided on how to get what your child needs to move, look, and listen through their life with ease. Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. 208 West Badillo St Covina, CA 91723 Phone: 626-332-4510 Website: http://bit.ly/DouglasWStephey Website Videos: http://bit.ly/DrStepheyOptometryVideos The Move Look & Listen Podcast is brought to you in part, by Audible - get a FREE audiobook download and 30-day free trial at www.audibletrial.com/InBound If interested in producing a podcast of your own, like the Move Look & Listen Podcast, contact Tim Edwards at tim@InBoundPodcasting.com or visit www.InBoundPodcasting.com Transcription Below: Tim Edwards: The Move Look and Listen Podcast with Dr. Doug Stephey is brought to you by audible. Get a free audio book download and a 30 day free trial audible membership www.audibletrial.com/inbound. You'll find over 180,000 titles to choose from, including several books mentioned here in the podcast. Support the Move Look & Listen Podcast by visiting www.audibletrial.com/inbound. Dr. Stephey: If our two eyes are not working together well as a fast synchronized team. Our internal mapquest continues to be off. It's consistently inconsistent with our ability to judge time and space. Those that don't feel well-grounded, those that have some measure of anxiety, oftentimes it starts in the visual system. If you can't move, look and listen in a fast, accurate, effortless, sustainable, age-appropriate, meaningful way, you're in a world of hurt. There's a whole world in vision and how it affects brain function that no one's ever shared with you. 20/20 is perceived as a holy grail of going to the eye doctor. Well, I'm here to change that paradigm. Tim Edwards: Hi and thanks for joining us for episode number six of the Move Look & Listen podcast with Dr. Doug Stephey. Hopefully you have found our previous episodes to be educational and insightful and eye opening. No pun intended, but today we're going to talk a little bit more about how vision plays a part in your child's special education needs. Dr. Stephey: Well, Tim, I'm glad to have this episode being recorded because it's important information and I think the listeners, not only will it resonate with them, but I'm hopeful that it will act as a springboard and they can use this information and share with others. Because even if the listeners of this podcast don't have a child of their own, who would benefit from this information, I'm confident that everyone is going to know someone who does have a child who would benefit from this information. And the reason I know that to be true is because I've been in practice now for 30 years and from the first week that I was in practice, I decided that we were going to have to provide vision therapy services because the need is too great. Dr. Stephey: For example, it's estimated that 10 to 20 percent of the population at large have some sort of vision related problem. Meaning their two eyes don't work together very well. As an integrated team. That's probably the most common problem, so when you think about that from the population at large, 10 to 20 percent, that's one out of every five people or one out of every 10 people that you're going to meet on the street who has a problem with the way their eyes work together. And it has nothing to do with seeing 20/20. That's tremendous. Now, if we preselect the populations, those that have a migraine history of a brain injury, history of dyslexia, learning disorder, reading problem, specific learning disability, carry a diagnosis of autism or ADHD or inattentive ADD or executive dysfunction. The prevalence of those populations, having an associated or causative vision problem associated with those diagnoses, I can confidently tell you it's at least 80 to 90 to 95 percent. Tim Edwards: So this is a no brainer for you to incorporate this into your practice. Dr. Stephey: This not only is it not a no brainer, I don't know how you can't practice this way. And I've said for years, I don't mind if you don't practice this way. But you can't pretend like these patients don't exist in your practice. More than 20 years ago, probably almost 30 years ago, I was pretty involved with our state association. So I would travel the state, meet different doctors at different venues and invariably we'd have a discussion. I would have a discussion and say, hey, remember when we were in school, like how common are these vision related problems? And invariably the doctors would say, oh, 10 to 20 percent. Isn't that right? I'm like, yeah, that's about right. So if you're doing 10 exams a ...
