May 18, 2022 - EyeClarity Podcast
I’m involved a lot with the autistic to ADD spectrum disorder community, I actually consult at a place called Kidpower. Recently, I gave a presentation on the exercise that helps improve our three-dimensional vision. 3D vision is so important because it helps us with our ability to make decisions to problem solve to see more deeply into situations. So, I wanted to share this talk with you all. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.
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divergence, eye, convergence, gram, vision, vector, ocular, spatial, kids, images, depth perception, slide, suppression, test, chart, diagnostic, 3d, cognitive, spectrum disorder, presentation
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Hey everybody, it’s Dr. Sam. So I’m involved a lot with the autistic to ADD spectrum disorder community, I actually consult at a place called Kidpower. And this is, an amazing place where occupational therapists offer many different modalities to help these kids grow and evolve. And I’ve been, I’ve been involved with Kidpower for, oh, my goodness, 15-20 years maybe. And recently, I was giving a presentation on the exercise that helps improve our three-dimensional vision. And 3d vision is so important because it helps us with our ability to make decisions to problem solve to see more deeply into situations. And when our two eyes are working together, we’re more easily triggered, or more fatigued, our concentration is less our balances less, and our memory is reduced. And you know, most eye exams, they don’t necessarily test, three-dimensional vision. In fact, what we’re doing in an eye exam is we’re testing the eye chart, and we’re looking at your eye health. And it’s usually a 10-minute experience, and you’re out the door, and the next person comes. So in this particular short presentation, I talked about a machine called the vector gram. And the vector gram is a 3d slide you put on some polarized glasses similar to if you went to the movies, and you were given 3d glasses, and you could see the film in 3d. Now.
For many people, they aren’t using their two eyes together. And unless you test for it, you have no idea that your two eyes are working together. And so some of the symptoms people will experience would be, I feel cloudy, I’m not able to focus. I follow a lot, you know, my memories kind of going. And when you do this kind of test. So the one that I’m explaining to the people at Kidpower. There are a lot of things that we talk about in terms of spatial reasoning, and spatial decision making. And then my physical therapy program, we focus on helping people regain their buying ocular vision. So there’s more stability, there’s more resiliency, and there’s more flexibility in using our two eyes and brain together. And it isn’t just the eyes. And it isn’t just the brain. But it’s both of them together. So I want you to enjoy the presentation, I wanted to give you a little context before we play this clip. And like always, I want to thank you for tuning in. Here we go.
So the vector grams is a powerful tool, both in diagnosis and treatment. From a diagnostic point of view, when you put a person on the vector gram, you’re going to pretty quickly discover if they have an ocular vision, depth perception, and suppression. And also, the other thing about the vector gram is that when you put a person on it, and you ask them in an open-ended way, what do you see? And what might you feel?
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Their answers are going to really tell you a lot about where they’re at in terms of their spatial decision meaning-making. And there was a research study that was done several years ago by a developmental optometrist. Harry wax is one of my mentors. And what Dr. Wax did is he measured people’s IQ. These were children. He measured their IQ, and then he put them on the vector gram. And then he did vision therapy with them for six weeks, and then he re-measured their vector gram and their IQ and he found that the kids who saw better depth perception jumped in their IQ scores from five to 10 points. So they increased. So the bottom line is, is that the better the spatial reasoning, the better the problem solving, and the deeper a person can go into being able to look at complex things and being able to solve them. If you’re in a suppression, or you see the world as flat, then your ability to see solutions to problems, whether it’s body-centered movements, or cognitive, vestibular doesn’t matter. The better the 3d vision, the better the problem-solving.
And the two eyes working together is such a powerful gift that when you help these kids develop better by an ocular vision, everything gets better, they feel more peaceful, they’re less triggered, and they understand what you’re saying to them. And their ability to work in a more complex situation just goes up. So when you do the diagnostic, and you find out where they’re at, it can be emotional for them. Because they may not understand what you’re asking, or they just can’t do it. So be very careful about pressing on them, you’ll get the information, Oh, I see it flat, I see depth, I don’t see the L I don’t see the R. Right now you’re using the race track and the and the other image.
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But when we move into the Mother Goose slide, this is really the test that I love doing because I set one of the pair of slides in convergence and the other set and divergence in the way you would know convergence, as you see the numbers at the bottom of the slide 1234, you can see the numbers, that’s convergence. And then the divergence would be the numbers. So what I do with that is and you can, you can put the convergence on the top or the bottom, you can vary it, that’s fun to do, as well. But when you put one chart and convergence in the other chart and divergence, and you ask the child to look at the images, you’re gonna get a whole lot of information on, their visual skills based on Are they able to see the King Bo Peep in Humpty, and where are they in space. And if you do The Mother Goose slide yourself, you will see that the right eye sees part of the picture and the left eye sees the other part of the picture. And each one of those images has details where the right eye only sees part of the picture. For example, the king, he’s got a pipe in his mouth and a bowl in his hand.
So the child might say, oh my god, the bowl is blinking on and off. So that’s going to tell you, for example, the left is shutting off, or the staff and the lamb. The lamb is the left eye the staff has the right or Humpty Dumpty. So you’re gonna get suppression checks, and you’re gonna get by nonocular responsiveness. And find out which chart they gravitate towards, you know, some kids say, say I want to go to the bottom chart first because I can see it. And so that might be divergent. So that tells you their preferences, more divergence. With other kids, they might be more in the convergence area, that might be their preference. And they can’t go into divergence. Usually, when a child prefers divergence, they’re in more of a parasympathetic state of, of consciousness. And it’s hard for them to get into the sympathetic state, which is convergence. Also, convergence is more of your reading. Skill. If you can’t converge, reading is going to be difficult. Divergence.
If a child can’t go into divergence, it means that they’re either in stress, trauma, or toxicity, and they can’t release, relax, and let go. And so that tells you about their ability to let go. That’s divergence. There are a lot of cognitive associations we can make with convergence and divergence. I think the first step on this is just putting those slides out. up through you all to look at each slide and determine what you see and what you feel. Remember, in convergence, the images should look closer and smaller. And in divergence, the images should look larger and farther away. These kids may not be able to see that. So that’s going to tell you the limitation they have in spatial decision-making. And I can speak for over three decades that when I help people develop better integrated spatial integration, it is a game-changer in their learning, their movement, their confidence, their mood, their stress levels, and with all the other things that you’re doing with them. This is the missing piece for you guys.
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