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  2. Vision therapy - Wikipedia

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    Vision therapy ( VT ), or behavioral optometry, is an umbrella term for alternative medicine treatments using eye exercises, based around the pseudoscientific claim that vision problems are the true underlying cause of learning difficulties, particularly in children. [1]

  3. Prism correction - Wikipedia

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    Prism correction. Prism lenses (here unusually thick) are used for pre-operative prism adaptation. Eye care professionals use prism correction as a component of some eyeglass prescriptions. A lens which includes some amount of prism correction will displace the viewed image horizontally, vertically, or a combination of both directions.

  4. Prism (optics) - Wikipedia

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    An optical prism is a transparent optical element with flat, polished surfaces that are designed to refract light. At least one surface must be angled — elements with two parallel surfaces are not prisms. The most familiar type of optical prism is the triangular prism, which has a triangular base and rectangular sides.

  5. Prism adaptation - Wikipedia

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    Prism adaptation is a sensory-motor adaptation that occurs after the visual field has been artificially shifted laterally or vertically. It was first introduced by Hermann von Helmholtz in late 19th-century Germany as supportive evidence for his perceptual learning theory (Helmholtz, 1909/1962). [1]

  6. Homonymous hemianopsia - Wikipedia

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    Causes. brain bleed, brain inflammation, brain tumor, dementia, epilepsy, lymphoma, other kinds of brain injuries, and stroke. Diagnostic method. magnetic resonance imaging. Hemianopsia, or hemianopia, is a visual field loss on the left or right side of the vertical midline.

  7. Orthographies and dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Dyslexia does not affect general intelligence, but is often co-diagnosed with ADHD. There are at least three sub-types of dyslexia that have been recognized by researchers: orthographic, or surface dyslexia, phonological dyslexia and mixed dyslexia where individuals exhibit symptoms of both orthographic and phonological dyslexia.

  8. Dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Dyslexia is diagnosed through a series of tests of memory, vision, spelling, and reading skills. Dyslexia is separate from reading difficulties caused by hearing or vision problems or by insufficient teaching or opportunity to learn. Treatment involves adjusting teaching methods to meet the person's needs.

  9. Hemispatial neglect - Wikipedia

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    Prism Glasses, Hemispatial Glasses, and Eye-Patching have all appeared to be effective in improving performance on neglect tests. Caloric Stimulation treatment appears to be effective in improving neglect; however, the effects are generally short-term.

  10. Management of dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Writing systems and orthography. Corrective glasses are used to treat visual dyslexia. A writing system is a type of symbolic system used to represent elements or statements expressible in language . The orthography of a language specifies the correct way of using a specific writing system to write the language.

  11. George M. Stratton - Wikipedia

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    George Malcolm Stratton (September 26, 1865 – October 8, 1957) was an American psychologist who pioneered the study of perception in vision by wearing special glasses which inverted images up and down and left and right. He studied under one of the founders of modern psychology, Wilhelm Wundt, and started one of the first experimental ...