Julie, my daughter (now 27) had to have Vision Therapy for a mild case of lazy eye when she was about 8 yrs old....She also had a problem with spatial relationship and depth perception....Once a week we had to meet with a specialist who did little fun eye exercises in his office for about 40 minutes AND the rest of the week, she and I did some different ones at home once a day for about a half an hour....One of the things we did were to put a patch on one eye, then she had to keep her head stilll as I held a tiny ball suspended by a string and I just swung the ball in a circle gently, as she watched....So many minutes with each eye....Another exercise, we took an old glass milk jug and she had to drop the wooden clothes pin in the opening....
Oh yeah, she also had trouble tracking with her eyes, so she got to do alot of those little mazes that you normally would use a pencil on to follow the path to the end, but instead, she would just use her eyes....To her, at the time they were all fun little things to do with me....
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