Dr. Dean's Patient's Testimonials
Imagine
IMAGINE…
Imagine you drop off a happy child at school in the morning that runs to play with her waiting friends.
Imagine when you pick up your child in the afternoon and she is standing by herself watching her friends play. Imagine as soon as she gets in the car she screams and yells about how bad her day at school was and how nobody likes her.
Imagine your child receives high academic grades in kindergarten through 2nd grade but receives unsatisfactory grades in penmanship, physical skills, sportsmanship, classroom conduct and work study habits.
Imagine starting in 3rd grade and continuing in the 4th and 5th grade the reading load becomes so much that in order to help your child keep up, you start reading her homework to her each night. Imagine your child always has to use her finger to keep her place on the page. Imagine your child cannot look up words in the dictionary (she can’t track from the dictionary to the piece of notebook paper). Imagine that most nights we don’t finish the homework so we get up early the next morning to finish it. Imagine each night after a long homework session your child goes to bed with a headache and an ice pack on her forehead.
Imagine when you play with your child in the afternoon and throw a ball to her, she misses it most of the time.
Imagine you send your daughter to volleyball camp and she comes home everyday and complains of getting hit on the head with the ball.
Imagine your child is often sick and misses a lot of school. Imagine you take your child to a medical doctor and they cannot find anything wrong with her. Imagine you take your child to an eye doctor and they say her vision is fine and she has a slight tracking problem, which she will grow out of. Imagine you and your child try a psychiatrist, well it was fun learning more about our mother/daughter relationship but it did not solve the homework problem, or find a reading for my daughter’s headaches.
Imagine, once again your boss is sitting in your cubicle listening to your apologies about missing so much work and how you have tried everything you can think of to find out why your daughter is always sick and missing so much school. Imagine a co-worker races into your cubicle, apologizes for eavesdropping, but says you must try having your daughter examined by an osteopath. Based on the results of the tests from the osteopath, she recommends we go to Dr. Dana Dean for the comprehensive vision examination.
Imagine, finally we get to meet Dr. Dana Dean.
From Dr. Dean’s thorough, caring, and fun eye examination, it is discovered, our daughter has double vision, problems with her eyes tracking together, and my daughter learns by memorizing information and does not visualize a picture in her mind when she reads.
We sign up for vision therapy.
Today, thanks to Dr. Dean and her caring staff,
Our daughter no longer
-Has double vision
-Has headaches
-Has to learn by memorizing everything
-Uses her fingers to keep track of where she is on a page when she is reading
-Needs me to read her homework to her
Our daughter now has
-Many friends at school and outside of school
-Many funny stories to tell about how much fun she is having at school each day
-Good marks in writing, class conduct, and sportsmanship, as well as good grades in reading, social studies, and math
-A great time playing sports at school, and playing tennis and volleyball outside of school
-A love for pleasure reading
Imagine Your Child Here!
We love you Dr. Dean and thank you for the help you have given our daughter that has forever changed her life.
Testimonials from Dr. Dean's patients
A Vision Therapy Success story
Before Vision Therapy, I didn’t used to like to read and schoolwork was difficult for me. Now that I have almost completed my therapy, I am reading more, and I actually enjoy it! My comprehension has improved, and so have my grades. Recently, I have been reading 100 to 200 page books. Before, I never had the desire to read any books. Two things I am still working on are holding my pencil correctly and not pressing down hard on the paper.
My family has supported me with a lot of effort and I appreciate all they have done for me. In the month of March, I have read a total of 1,150 pages. In the month of April, I want to double the amount I have in the previous month. Now I have the desire to read more and more books. I love to play sports, so I am going to try out for soccer again this season. At school, I am in Dance and right now we are working on a very fast routine. On May 5th, I am going to perform my routine. That’s my Vision Therapy Success story
Jillian Medina
From Grandma:
Wow! It’s hard to put this success into words. Not just my grandson, but also the entire family has experienced a complete metamorphosis. Before therapy, he said he was the strong, stupid brother and now three weeks into seventh grade, he is getting straight A’s! Needless to say, his self-confidence has really improved. Now I realize to what extent the problems he experienced in the 4-6th grades were related to his vision. As his vision improved, so did his grades and his confidence. Also, my relationship with him has greatly improved and there are fewer blow-ups (from him and from me). He is showing maturity in many ways, including helping his mother with her childcare business. Thank you!
From Mom:
Eye therapy has made a big difference in my son’s life! He has fewer headaches and his schoolwork has improved. His reading has improved and he seems to enjoy it more. Thank you for the difference you have made in my life.
From Dad:
Back when he was having a hard time focusing visually, his mental focus was so scattered that he would literally look away from his work and up to the ceiling every ten seconds, trying to process the text.
Last week I saw him in the living room doing homework. The TV was on and the volume was turned up pretty high, which used to drive him well passed distraction. An ad for Monday night football came on, and I fully expected it’s distinctive theme music to divert young Mr. football’s attention. But there he sat, cranking away at the task before him, mentally focused, productive, and content and what I found most telling, completely oblivious to the ceiling.
HOW VISION THERAPY HAS HELPED ME
By: Kristen Friese – Age 10
Vision therapy has helped me a lot because I used to not like to read and my mom would force me to read, but now I read and I actually sort of like it.
Before vision therapy, my eyes hurt when I read. I was a horrible speller. I used to complain a lot and say, “Mommy, no, I really, really don’t want to do my homework! Pleeeeeease!”
At vision therapy I had home exercises. At first I hated one of them; I thought it was a fun-stealing machine. Other than that one, home exercises weren’t all that bad. I could see that my eyes were getting better.
It was fun to go to vision therapy and work with Janae because some of the exercises are extremely fun. Janae is a nice therapist who has helped me a lot. If Janae was a cookie, her recipe would be a lot of nice, a pinch of picky, and two cups plus two handfuls of patience.
Dr. Dean is nice and creative and a mother all put together. Her recipe is 2 cups and one teaspoon of patience, 5 cups of kindness, one cup of a very good sense of humor, mixed together with knowing everything about vision therapy.
Now homework is a lot easier. My mom doesn’t have to force me to do it. I actually even sometimes do it when she’s not home.
I can read a lot better. My eyes aren’t as sore, so I read all the words more accurately.
Once I read a book for a book report, but I didn’t write my report until the very last day, so I had to do it all then. But I remembered it all perfectly, so it was a piece of cake. (In fact, I wish I had a piece of cake!)
I read faster and I remember more because of visual memory that I got from vision therapy. I’m a better speller now. I like language are now because it’s so easy.
Vision therapy has been a wonderful time for me.
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