Overview
This comprehensive text on vision therapy consolidates information that is currently scattered among many sources, including hot topics such as sports vision and vision rehabilitation. Contains an entire section on practice management. It features key terms, clinical pearls, review questions, case studies and high-quality illustrations. The book comes with a disk in Rich Text Format (RTF), which is compatible with most popular IBM and Macintosh word processing systems. The disk contains more than 100 techniques and practice management communications that can be modified to individual patients and printed out for use in practice.
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Bradley S. Bessant, OD(University of Alabama at Birmingham)Description: This book is a collection of chapters by highly regarded authors in optometry. The author organizes these chapters into an organized presentation of vision theories and vision therapies.
Purpose: This book is intended for students and practitioners and some allied heath care disciplines interested in applying vision therapies. This book covers a wide range of different vision therapies and how they can be integrated into patient care and does it well.
Audience: As I mentioned before, this book is written for optometry students, practitioners, and other disciplines, such as occupational therapy, cognitive rehabilitation, learning disorders, psychology, orthoptics, and ophthalmology interested in applying vision therapy.
Features: This book has a typical appearance and presentation with an interesting addition. Included with the book is a 3.5 inch diskette that contains many different vision therapy forms and a variety of letters. All of the illustrations and references are topical and current to the text. The table of contents is well laid out and flows in a predictable manner.
Assessment: This is a useful, high quality book that would be a welcomed addition to any student or practitioner's library.
Bradley S. Bessant
This book is a collection of chapters by highly regarded authors in optometry. The author organizes these chapters into an organized presentation of vision theories and vision therapies. This book is intended for students and practitioners and some allied heath care disciplines interested in applying vision therapies. This book covers a wide range of different vision therapies and how they can be integrated into patient care and does it well. As I mentioned before, this book is written to optometry students, practitioners, and other disciplines, such as occupational therapy, cognitive rehabilitation, learning disorders, psychology, orthoptics, and ophthalmology interested in applying vision therapy. This book has a typical appearance and presentation with an interesting addition. Included with the book is a 3.5 inch diskette that contains many different vision therapy forms and a variety of letters. All of the illustrations and references are topical and current to the text. The table of contents is well laid out and flows in a predictable manner. This is a useful, high quality book that would be a welcomed addition to any student or practitioner's library.4 Stars! from Doody