A VISIT BY KEITH HOLLAND, BEHAVIOURAL OPTOMETRIST
Keith Holland, a leading behavioural Optometrist, visited JPS, Dubai in February 2010 to carry out vision assessments. A vision checklist is attached on the right of this page for your reference.
Do you have any concerns about your child? There is a short PowerPoint presentation to watch that demonstrates the kind of difficulties that can occur. Please discuss any concerns with your child's teacher and the Achievement Centre at JPS. This can also be seen as a talk on http://www.dystalk.com/talks/104-visual-problems-amp-dyslexia where the saccadic eye movement slide is animated. Please be aware that difficulties with eye movements can occur with non-dyslexic as well as dyslexic children.
Keith Holland, BSc, FCOptom, FCOVD, FAAO, DCLP, runs a specialist optometry practice in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK, working mostly with children who have specific learning difficulties or dyslexia. To date, he has carried out in-depth assessments on over 7,500 children over the last ten years, and has patients not only all over Britain, but in thirty countries abroad as well. Mr Holland has worked on a number of research projects, notably in researching the effects of coloured lenses on dyslexia in association with The Medical Research Council, and has lectured extensively in Britain, Europe, America and Australia. He has contributed to numerous publications on vision and dyslexia, and is the only Briton to have been awarded Fellowship of The College of Optometrists in Vision Development in The United States.
In 1991 Mr Holland founded the British Association of Behavioural Optometry, the country’s largest specialist organisation in the field of vision problems and learning. His practice in Cheltenham has twice been recognised in national awards as the Specialist Eyecare Practice of the Year.
If you would like more information including about Mr Holland’s visit to JPS please contact Mrs Laura D. Barroso on laura.d_jps@gemsedu.com
Behavioural Optometry explanation and information are included in Vision and Learning leaflet which can be downloaded from Related Items section on this page.
The following sites are also useful:
http://www.keithholland.co.uk
http://www.babo.co.uk
http://www.covd.org
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