Vision Therapy for Natalie
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Our daughter Natalie has been struggling when it comes to reading, writing, doing school work and homework. When her school tested her vision this year in first grade, it was recommended that we take her to see the eye doctor.
The following week I brought her to my eye doctor, who after testing her eyes referred her to a specialist. After two appointments and lots of testing it was discovered that Natalie has convergence insufficiency.
Convergence insufficiency causes blurred vision, double vision, eye strain, and headaches.
What does this mean for Natalie and how is it effecting her? When she is looking at small images such as print she is fighting double vision, blurriness and eye strain. This causes the neurons in her brain to turn off one eye once it does become too strained. For Natalie it is causing a struggle with reading and comprehension, it makes it so she wants to avoid reading and doing homework, and when doing homework she takes a very long time to complete it. This is also what causes some of her clumsiness. Say for example I have a glass of water on the table, for me I can simply reach forward and grab it. For Natalie, the glass of water that is 12 inches in front of her appears to her to be about 15 inches in front of her. So when she goes to reach for it she actually knocks it over.
Most insurance companies will not cover any type of vision therapy. As you may have guessed, ours does not, regardless of where we go. All of the places around where we live all cost about the same. $4,270.00, is the cost for Natalie to get the vision therapy she needs to permanently correct this. Right now the place where we did her testing at has a $500 coupon that we can use until the end of November making the cost $3,770.
The sooner we can get her started the sooner she can get caught up in school for reading, writing, speech and comprehension. Her CI is also causing some of her issues she is having her passion of riding horses. She is misjudging placement of objects when riding such as barrels and poles.
We appreciate any help big or small toward raising the funds needed to correct her vision. Thank you!
We are hoping to have enough funds raised by Thanksgiving in order to get her started as quickly as possible with vision therapy.
Natalie is a very bright, sweet, and talented young lady. Having a CI is holding her back from her full potential. As any parent would we want to see her be as successful in life as possible. Personally as her mother, I see what a big heart my daughter has and how kind and caring she is towards not just people, but animals as well. I see her going into a field as an adult where she will be helping others, that's just who she is.
Thank you again! Any help means the world to myself and the rest of Natalie's family.
Here are some links with further information on CI.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/convergence-insufficiency/basics/definition/con-20033203
http://www.convergenceinsufficiency.org/
http://www.aapos.org/terms/conditions/38
The following week I brought her to my eye doctor, who after testing her eyes referred her to a specialist. After two appointments and lots of testing it was discovered that Natalie has convergence insufficiency.
Convergence insufficiency causes blurred vision, double vision, eye strain, and headaches.
What does this mean for Natalie and how is it effecting her? When she is looking at small images such as print she is fighting double vision, blurriness and eye strain. This causes the neurons in her brain to turn off one eye once it does become too strained. For Natalie it is causing a struggle with reading and comprehension, it makes it so she wants to avoid reading and doing homework, and when doing homework she takes a very long time to complete it. This is also what causes some of her clumsiness. Say for example I have a glass of water on the table, for me I can simply reach forward and grab it. For Natalie, the glass of water that is 12 inches in front of her appears to her to be about 15 inches in front of her. So when she goes to reach for it she actually knocks it over.
Most insurance companies will not cover any type of vision therapy. As you may have guessed, ours does not, regardless of where we go. All of the places around where we live all cost about the same. $4,270.00, is the cost for Natalie to get the vision therapy she needs to permanently correct this. Right now the place where we did her testing at has a $500 coupon that we can use until the end of November making the cost $3,770.
The sooner we can get her started the sooner she can get caught up in school for reading, writing, speech and comprehension. Her CI is also causing some of her issues she is having her passion of riding horses. She is misjudging placement of objects when riding such as barrels and poles.
We appreciate any help big or small toward raising the funds needed to correct her vision. Thank you!
We are hoping to have enough funds raised by Thanksgiving in order to get her started as quickly as possible with vision therapy.
Natalie is a very bright, sweet, and talented young lady. Having a CI is holding her back from her full potential. As any parent would we want to see her be as successful in life as possible. Personally as her mother, I see what a big heart my daughter has and how kind and caring she is towards not just people, but animals as well. I see her going into a field as an adult where she will be helping others, that's just who she is.
Thank you again! Any help means the world to myself and the rest of Natalie's family.
Here are some links with further information on CI.
http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/convergence-insufficiency/basics/definition/con-20033203
http://www.convergenceinsufficiency.org/
http://www.aapos.org/terms/conditions/38
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Danielle Nicole LaPlante-Epley
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Wichita, KS