On February 25th Brady is starting HBOT at Dr.Mumper's facility The Rimland Center. We are really excited. The studies yielded some really exciting results. We're hoping Brady responds well.
On March 13 Brady has an appt scheduled with Dr.Kaplan. He's a behavioral/developmental optometrist. He has been working with children on the spectrum for a long time. Brady has strabismus or commonly known as lazy eye. I hate that term because his eye is *not* lazy. At 18months Brady had surgery to align the eye. At first it seemed to work but then his eye wandered off again. Not only that but Brady changed a lot after his surgery. I believe that Brady responds very negatively to anesthesia. The static concept is visual dysfunction is a structural problem. A more accurate paradigm recognizes that vision is a dynamic process, which controls the action of the entire body and , in turn, is influenced by feedback from other sensory systems.
Many of Brady's behaviors are most likely attributed to his vision. He has lots of visual stims. He likes to look at things out of the corner of his eyes, or odd angles. He moves things in unusual ways to look at them. Loads of toe-walking. I really feel (and hope) that Dr.Kaplan is going to help Brady in a huge way. We are anticipating Brady will get prism lenses. He currently has a program in which he tolerates wearing glasses in his ABA program. I'm so worried he won't wear
them.
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