Has anyone heard of or had any experience with this?
Ds's OT has recommended he see one. He is still having problems with tracking, spacing, copying, etc.
We have the appt set for Sept 13 and it is supposed to be a 2 hour eval.
http://www.pavevision.org/behavioraloptometrist.htm
http://www.childrensvision.com/developmental_optometrists.ht m
Here's my experience with vision testing, although we saw an "orthoptist" for eye convergence issues rather than a "developmental optometrist." Please ignore the yellow highlighting.
My son got vision testing as part of the evaluation leading to his autism diagnosis. It was a nightmare to get him to cooperate with reading the symbols on the eye chart at his 4 year well-child check-up, but it went fine at the regular optometrist a year later, partly because they use a machine that can tell if the eyes are farsighted or nearsighted.
He also did a stereogram card, which is a hologram picture of a couple everyday objects that you can only see easily if your eyes work well together. We went to an orthoptist when my son had iffy results with the stereogram, others go to a developmental optometrist.
The orthoptist could tell a lot about my son's vision even though he didn't cooperate very well with her exercises. The orthoptist said his eyes are pointing two slightly different directions, but right now it's still in the normal range.
We'll be getting him re-checked regularly, because he might have inherited my husband eye condition -- he has eyes that point in two slightly different directions (not noticeable when you look at him). He needs prisms in his glasses to fix this. For some people it causes problems with reading ability but for my husband it just results in headaches if he doesn't wear his glasses. He needs glasses only for the prisms, not for near- or far-sightedness.