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Learn to live with it my rear!

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I don't post in this forum much as my dd is getting older and most of her issues are pretty easy to deal with these days but we've been having serious problems with things that require up close stuff like reading. As a toddler dd saw a developmental ophthalmologist about every 3 months and her prescription was adjusted because her eyes were changing so fast, her eyes seemed to stabilize for a while and I was getting really fed up with some things going on at the Dr's office and said screw it and stopped going. I think she was about 4 at the time. I took her to our regular family eye Dr for her next exam (age 5) and he ordered her new glasses and said he would correct for her astigmatism as well since she was now school age and it would mess with her learning to read. Well the new glasses came in and I said something is wrong with the prescription and he said she just needed to adjust to them, well a month later she still hadn't adjusted and it was very obvious something was wrong so I took her back and he checked her again and said it was just her screwing around to get out of school work and the prescription was fine and the best vision he could get her was 20/60 with glasses and her issues were just "developmental issues due to her rough start in life and we'd need to live with it". Bull! I know better and dragged her little butt back to the developmental lady and I was right, the prescription was totally wrong and dd couldn't even see out of the dang things! She agreed with me that it WAS fixable and right there in the office created a pair of glasses using those big ugly ones and suddenly dd was able to see 20/20 up-close and this is a kid who's field of vision starts about 4-5 feet out (its gotten worse in the last year she said, was about 3 feet out before) so she wrote out an order for a new pair of glasses and we'll see what happens. dd's been really frustrated with reading and I feel like its my fault, she was doing well until I switched Dr's out of frustration and we've had zero progress since and I thought it was her being lazy, it was because she couldn't see the dang letters!
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satori, you may also want to get her visual skills checked. there is a lot more to vision than most eye doctors check for. and it majorly effects reading.

i highly recommend the book "the myth of laziness" by mel levine. his website is www.allkindsofminds.com

if the difficulty continues, you may also want to get a full evaluation.

the glasses thing is frustrating. my son went to one that said he needed glasses. a few months later we had to get him re-checked and the new doc said he didn't need them.
The Dr did recommend a full vision assessment which takes 3-4 hours but it costs $450 and insurance will not cover it so unless we win the lottery or something I don't see it happening any time soon since things are already paycheck to paycheck around here
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Originally Posted by Satori
The Dr did recommend a full vision assessment which takes 3-4 hours but it costs $450 and insurance will not cover it so unless we win the lottery or something I don't see it happening any time soon since things are already paycheck to paycheck around here

since it is affecting her schoolwork, can it be done through the school district?
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since it is affecting her schoolwork, can it be done through the school district?
I asked the Dr about that and she said no
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