Bright student, struggles in school especially with reading, easily distractable.

Vision testing revealed difficulties in tracking, focusing and visual motor integration.  Glasses to reduce focus stress and vision therapy were initiated.    After 16 weeks of vision therapy, his mother shares how much he’s improved…his reading, sports, confidence and behavior.

Jennifer is thrilled and wants to share the message with the millions of parents who have children with “hidden” visual problems.

Are you interested in assisting Jennifer with her passion of helping millions of children with vision problems?  Please let us know!

By Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Colorado Optometrist in Vision Therapy

Click here to listen to the 30 minute interview on vision therapy and the See It. Say It. Do It! Process  

By Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Colorado Optometrist in Vision Therapy, Hellerstein & Brenner Vision Center, PC

“The number of people being diagnosed with autism is way up, across the country and especially in Colorado. Data from the Centers for Disease Control show autism diagnoses nationwide jumped 23% from 2006 to 2008. In Colorado, it was 60% over the same period! To help us understand what the numbers mean, Dr. Nicole Tartaglia joins us. She’s a developmental pediatrician at Children’s Hospital Colorado.”

Click here to listen to the Colorado Public Radio Story.

Many parents, educators, physicians and therapists struggle looking for answers for people with ASD.  Treatments may include nutritional, occupational, speech therapy, medications, behavior modifications and the list goes on.

However, VISION, our dominant sense for learning is often over-looked.  Visual processing differences (not just 20/20 eyesight) are being found in many individuals diagnosed with ASD.  No surprise that many of these individuals have show excellent improvement with special lenses/prisms and vision therapy prescribed by developmental optometrists.

We support Autism Awareness month!  An on-line group:  momsfightingautism.com  have organized a 2012 Free On-line autism conference.  Click here to join the conference and learn more about autism and treatments.  Help your kids/adults with ASD achieve their goals more effectively and successfully!

An excellent article that reviews the vision research is included  here.  Vision in Autism Spectrum Disorders

By Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Colorado Optometrist in Vision Therapy, Hellerstein & Brenner Vision Therapy

That’s right, spring training!  We start early, training our baseball fans to wear sun protective glasses, sharpening their curve ball and making baseball a family event.

May all your baseball dreams come true!  Make sure you visit B’s Ballpark Museum in Denver!

By Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Colorado Optometrist in Vision Therapy, Assistant Curator of B’s Ballpark Museum

Per the Medicalnewstoday.com article:
“The brains of experienced meditators appear to show less activity in an area known as the “default mode network” which is linked to largely self-centred thinking.  The researchers suggest through and monitoring and suppressing or “tuning out” the “me” thoughts, meditators develop a new default mode which is more present-centred… They also found that when the default mode network was active in the experienced meditators, other parts of the brain associated with self-monitoring and cognitive control, were ative at the same time.  Thus the researchers concluded that perhaps experienced meditators have developed a new default mode, which is centred more on the present than on the self.  

Meditation has been a central part of philosophical and contemplative practices for thousands of years: it helps the practitioner to be mindful of the present moment.  Studies have shown it is also linked to increased levels of happiness.  Conversely, the hallmarks of many forms of mental illness is a preoccupation with one’s own thoughts, a condition meditation seems to affect.”

for more information, check medicalnewstoday.com/mntoday

by Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Colorado Optometrist in Vision Therapy and author of See It. Say It. Do It!

Per her father,
“The people who worked there said it’s the first time that someone sang a song for a princess. Good thing she dressed like Princess Belle and knew the song. I didn’t expect Rachel will sing the beauty and the beast song for Belle. For me it was totally amazing. She told me once before our trip to Disneyworld that she’s ready to meet all the princesses since she knows how to sing their favorite songs.”

By Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Colorado Optometrist in Vision Therapy

By Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Vision Therapy in Colorado

Her mother commented: “I’d never seen anything like it,” Verno said. “Caley’s mom said it was one of the Top 10 events of her life. Hearing that, the parents talking about their daughters living out their dreams, just leaves me speechless.

Click here  to read the entire story.  Take a box of kleenex with you- it’s truly an inspiring story!

By Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Metro-Denver Optometrist at Hellerstein & Brenner Vision Center, PC

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Experience the life transformation by using the See It. Say It. Do It! Process

By Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Colorado Optometrist at Hellerstein & Brenner Vision Center, in Vision Therapy

By Dr. Lynn Hellerstein, Colorado Optometrist at Hellerstein & Brenner Vision Center, in Vision Therapy