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OPTOMETRY AND VISION SCIENCE
Copyright © 2006 American Academy of Optometry
Optometric Management of
Learning Related Vision Problems,
2nd ed.
Mitchell
Scheiman and
Michael Rouse.
St. Louis: Mosby-
Elsevier; 2006.
$85.00.
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Optometric Man
agement of Learn
ing Related Vi-
sion Problems, by
Scheiman and Rouse, has always been a
“must-have” text for those optometrists who
choose to examine children on a daily basis.
Now, with the second edition, the authors
have imparted even more wisdom in this
text. Any optometrist who is committed to
making a difference in the lives of their pedi-
atric patients should purchase this well-
written text. The list of contributing authors
is a veritable who’s who of optometry.
The text is divided into four parts along
with a clinically useful series of appendices.
In part I, “Background Information,” the
seven chapters provide an excellent overview
of the processes essential to the understand-
ing of the treatment of children. There are
four new chapters added to this part since the
first edition: an overview of special popula-
tions, an overview of colored lenses/overlays
and reading, an overview of visual attention
and learning, and an overview of reading.
Optometry and Vision Science, Vol. 83, No. 10, October 2006
BOOK REVIEW
In part II, “Relationship Between Vision
and Learning,” there are three chapters relat-
ing vision and learning with general issues,
visual efficiency problems, and visual percep-
tual problems. This is an excellent review of
the reasons why optometry is THE resource
for children with academic issues.
Part III, “Assessment,” is broken into
six chapters starting with the role of the
optometrist and continuing through case
history, visual efficiency problems, visual
information processing problems, psy-
choeducational evaluation, and case pre-
sentation. This part is a wonderful learn-
ing tool for the optometric student,
because the chapters are clear and con-
cise and full of tables that summarize
ideas well. The tables in Chapter 13 are a
good review of the norms for optometric
near-point testing, and the discussion on
fixation disparity testing is relevant for
anyone who has not used this equipment
in recent years. Chapter 14 has a section
that discusses the scoring and under-
standing of test results, which is a very
necessary review of some basic statistics
that will be used when performing visual
perceptual testing.
The final part, “Treatment,” is arguably
the most useful section of the text. It pro-
vides the network for the student or op-
tometrist to prepare an overall manage-
ment plan for their patient based on any
efficiency and/or visual information pro-
cessing problems and then describes the
actual performance of many of the tech-
niques necessary for this therapy! Although
no one text can provide the reader with
every possible visual perceptual therapy
technique, this one gives a really nice sum-
mary of the types of techniques to try ac-
companied by good photos and diagrams
for many of them. The final chapter in this
text gives a number of useful case studies to
review. This is a nice touch, because it
brings all of the ideas provided throughout
the text into a clinical setting.
The seven appendices allow the reader to
make use of many resources to incorporate
more pediatric testing into their practice. Ap-
pendix A provides a much needed bibliogra-
phy for parents and other professionals. This
is something that could be resourced every
single day in a typical primary care optomet-
ric practice. The other appendices provide
samples of surveys, questionnaires, and let-
ters that could add pertinent information to
the case history of a pediatric patient.
Each chapter starts with key terms and a
clear introduction and ends with a succinct
summary, chapter review questions, and a
reference list, which makes this an excel-
lent resource for both the student and the
practicing optometrist.
Christine L. Allison
Illinois College of Optometry
Chicago, Illinois