Hey everybody, it's Dr. Sam and I wanted to give you a glimpse into an evaluation I did making recommendations with a seven-year-old, autistic child. Now many of you don't know, but I have specialized in working with children along the autism spectrum. We call it ADD on one end and autism on the other end. And I consult at a facility in Albuquerque called KidPower. You may have heard in some of my other podcasts, where I do trainings with the therapists, and I have extensive education and experience in working with these kids, I love these kids, they're so awesome. And my kind of eye exam is really different than most eye doctors, we spend most of this time on the floor, believe it or not, because I'm really interested in their sensory-motor development. You know, one of my teachers used to say that when a child comes in for an evaluation, you're evaluating the eyes and the vision, but you're really evaluating the total child, the whole child. Enjoy the show. If you want more, sign up for my newsletter at: www.drsamberne.com.

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Hey everybody, it's Dr. Sam and I wanted to give you a glimpse into an evaluation I did making recommendations with a seven year old, autistic child.

Now many of you don't know, but I have specialize in working with children along the autism spectrum. We call it the add on one end and autism on the other end. And I consult at a facility in Albuquerque called kidpower. You may have heard in some of my other podcasts, where I do trainings with the therapists, and I have extensive education and experience in working with these kids, I love these kids, they're so awesome. And my kind of eye exam is really different than most I doctors, we spend most of this time on the floor, believe it or not, because I'm really interested in their sensory motor development. You know, one of my teachers used to say that when a child comes in for an evaluation, you're evaluating the eyes and the vision, but you're really evaluating the total child, the whole child. And so we're looking at it from a developmental perspective. We're looking at it from a nutritional and biochemistry perspective. And we're looking at it from Well, a lot of different facets beyond reading the eye chart, you know, most eye exams, you read the eye chart, they check you for eye health, they give you a pair of glasses, and you're out the door and unfortunately in the pediatrics world, they put eyedrops in children's eyes and it paralyzes the focusing muscles and then they end up giving these really whacked out prescriptions, which are too strong they're too distorted because when you use eye drops, you are paralyzing the focusing muscles inside the eye. So in this boy, he came in with a very imbalanced prescription one eye was a lot more farsighted than the other in terms of the glasses, and he has a condition where his eyes are diverging so when I stray while the other eye wanders out, and then every once in a while he'll alternate in the wandering eye will come in and fixate. So we call this an alternating exotropia or a divergent strabismus, and he's had two eye muscle surgeries. And whenever you do eye muscle surgeries, you're disconnecting the eyes from the brain, it is one of the worst surgeries you could ever do.