Robert Lederman is a developmental optometrist with 35+ years of clinical experience and 18,000+ patients seen. As Director of LedermanVision in Jerusalem, he specializes in binocular vision, dyslexia, learning-related visual issues, vision therapy, and neuro-optometric rehabilitation. A Fellow of OVDRA and its Israel Chapter President, he lectures internationally, publishes widely, and trains clinicians to integrate functional vision into everyday practice.

Learning Objectives

This session will help participants recognize the visual contributions to reading and dyslexia. Attendees will learn how inefficiencies in fixation, binocular stability, and eye movement control create barriers to fluent decoding, and why systematic evaluation of these skills is essential in functional vision care. The session will also highlight how targeted optometric assessments and optometric vision therapy complement language-based approaches. Increased understanding of the interaction between phonological and visual processes, unique to each language, will enable optometrists to describe success more accurately and set realistic expectations regarding the improvement in reading following optometric intervention of glasses and/or optometric vision therapy.

Target audience

My talk is intended for Doctors looking for a clearer understanding of the visual demands of reading, and how different languages have different visual and linguistic demands. Optometrists who are trying to diagnose for learning-related vision problems will benefit as they will leave with an increased ability to explain to parents what might be expected to improve from the intervention of optometric vision therapy.

COPE Course ID: 101160-FV
Qualified Credit: 1.00 hour(s)
Course: Dyslexia: An Optometric Perspective