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Re: What is Ocular Motor Apraxia?

From: JULIE FRAZIER, e-mail: KJEJFRAZIER@AOL.COM
Date: 23 Feb 2002 at 04:59
Replying to: message 890.html

I JUST WANTED TO ENCOURAGE YOU THAT YOUR DAUGHTER IS DOING GREAT, TO BE SITTING UP. MY SON IS 2 1/2 YRS. AND HAS OMA. MY SON IS SEEN BY THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON EYE INST. HIS DOCTORS SAY NOT TO PATCH HIS EYE(S). THEY SAID THAT WOULD BE LIKE TORTURE TO HIM ON THE COUNT OF THAT HE JERKS (HEAD THRUSTING) HIS HEAD IN ORDER TO GET HIS EYES TO THE RIGHT PLACE SO HE CAN SEE. IF WE PATCHED HIS EYE HE WOULD NOT LEARN TO COMPENSATE. ALTHOUGH HE IS NOT NEAR NOR FAR SIGHTED. HE HAS LEARNED TO COMPENSATE JUST AS THEY SAID HE WOULD. THE HEAD THURSTING IS AT A VERY MIN. HE IS CONTROLING THOSE EYES MORE AND MORE.


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