Are Your Children Visually Ready to Learn? It’s Back To School + Vision and Learning Month with Dr. Dan Press (Episode #105)

Dr. Lynn Hellerstein of Vision Beyond Sight speaks with Dr. Dan Press, optometrist, owner and clinical director at Park Ridge Vision, to talk about the impact of vision to learning in preparation for August’s back to school and Vision and Learning Month. Are your children visually ready to learn? How well is your child doing at taking in the information through vision? Dr. Press discusses the importance of visual processing evaluation for kids – not just general/routine eye exams – and vision therapy. Discover the signs and symptoms that parents and teachers should look out for in students. Learn about tracking problems and other vision issues for children, especially for those with learning disabilities and developmental delays. Do you think your kid needs help? Find out how to find the right eye doctor for visual processing issues through OVDRA and OEP.

Dr. Press also talks about being a third-generation optometrist like our host Dr. Lynn, and the impact of his renowned father, Dr. Leonard Press, on his future as an optometrist. He also shares how her daughter has undergone vision therapy, and how the experience of handling this as a parent sheds further light on what it means to care for your kid, their vision and learning.

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• Dr. Press being a third-generation optometrist
• Following the footsteps of his father, Dr. Leonard Press
• The importance of checking all areas of vision for kids
• How well is your child doing at taking in the information through vision?
• Signs and symptoms that parents and teachers should look out for
• Vision issues for children with learning disabilities, ADD, dyslexia, developmental delays, etc.
• Statistics of children with visual problems
• Tracking problems and the efficiency of eye movements
• Finding the right eye doctor through OVDRA and OEP
• Visual processing evaluation vs. general eye exams
• What is vision therapy?
• Dr. Press’ own daughter on vision therapy
• Different eye evaluations for children

About Dr. Dan Press:

Dr. Dan Press is a third generation Optometrist and is board certified in vision development and rehabilitation by Optometric Vision Development and Rehabilitation Association (OVDRA). Dan was born in Philadelphia and raised in New Jersey. He is a 2007 graduate of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry. Dan owns Park Ridge Vision, an optometric practice located in the Chicago suburbs that has a special interest in pediatric vision, vision development, vision therapy/rehabilitation and myopia management. The doctors at Park Ridge Vision are interested in evaluating and treating, to the best of their ability, the root cause of ocular/vision problems. Dan lives in Park Ridge with his wife Sara and their three children, Ethan, Ella and Eva (and dog Trey).

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“Vision is so much more than eyesight. The emphasis of pediatrician screenings and most routine eye exams is simply on whether or not a child can see clearly when they’re looking at a chart 20 feet away and whether or not the eyes are healthy. Those are critically important but there is so much more to vision when it comes to learning and the demands of the classroom environment that unless you are checking those other areas of vision, then you’re not sure whether or not your child is equipped to handle the classroom demands. What we want to try to communicate is that the first thing that we need to be looking for when it comes to visual processing beyond eyesight is ‘How well is your child doing at taking in the information through vision?’” – Dr. Dan Press

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