Thankful Thursday

Finally!!

Everyone around me knows I’ve BEEN saying my children have visual processing disorder. But a behavioural optometrist I took them to in 2021 said nope, they’re all good.

I had struggled to find even that practice, and her tests had SEEMED to be what I’d expect…

But this year, yet another educational psychologist stated that they need testing by a behavioural optometrist. The list of recommendations included the one I went to in 2021.

You can guess that I didn’t go back. I chose a different one.

And finally this week, it was confirmed. My children DO have visual processing disorder. The testing was very different to the first one, more involved, truly tested their prevention, discrimination, even tested their primitive reflexes (don’t ask me why. But it’s all linked to the brain!) and she was lovely to boot.

Conclusion? As expected, my sweet eight year old has more challenges than her seven year old brother. Her vision is not bad, but she will be getting low plus lenses for educational work only. It’s apparently THE thing for children with ADHD and other special needs that come with processing problems. They’ll both need vision therapy and at the end, the optometrist will decide if my boy needs glasses too.

Man, it’s been how many years??

And I’m glad. It’s not good, obviously, but I’m glad to have found the right behavioural optometrist.

Now, we can start HELPING my children reach their full potential.