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The Center for Visual Management |
...Doctors
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Melvin
Kaplan, O.D., F.C.O.V.D, is
the Director of The Center
for Visual Management. Dr.
Kaplan specializes in the
treatment of patients with
visual spatial learning differences
to include, but not limited,
to perceptual, psychological,
autistic, and traumatic brain
injury dysfunction. Dr.
Kaplan has been a Fellow
of the College of Optometrists
in Vision Development since
1977. He is now serving
as a consultant for Helen
Hayes Hospital in West Haverstraw,
NY. Dr. Kaplan has
served as a clinical instructor
of behavioral sciences in
the Department of Psychiatry
at the New York Medical College,
Westchester, New York. He
has also served on the Advisory
Board of the Canadian Institute
for Neuro-Intergrative Development,
as a consultant for Gateway,
in British Columbia, Canada
and the Child Developmental
Clinic, in Hong Kong, China.
Dr.
Kaplan has been a principal
lecturer for Optometric audiences,
both in the United States
and abroad. He is also a
frequent lecturer at autistic,
educational, psychological
and psychiatric conferences.
He has a significant body
of published research on ambient lenses and
their role in the rehabilitation
of individuals who display
dysfunction in learning,
emotion and autistic spectrum
disorders.
His book published in 2006, Seeing Through New Eyes: Changing the Lives of Children with Autism, Aspergers Syndrome, and other Developmental Disabilities through Vision Therapy, is now available for parents and professionals in the fields of autism, optometry and ophthalmology, psychology, education and occupational therapy who wish to explore a physiological model for managing the spectrum population. |
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Barbara Kotsamanidis, MSE has been a Visual Therapy Provider with The Center for Visual Management since 2003. She holds her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Pace University and a Masters in Science in Educational Psychology from Fordham University.
Her specialty is in the treatment of patients with developmental delays, learning differences and disabilities, autism and emotional disorders. She additionally provides private testing and consultations in the following areas:
- Early Childhood Intervention: Monitoring & Treatment of Visual Motor and Sensory Development Growth
- K-12 Developmental Vision Screenings
- School Readiness Testing
- Educational Planning & Development
- Functional Performance Assessments
These types of assessments are individualized and uniquely map out developmental needs, which have been designed to include:
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* Developmental vision screenings to identify children with developmental delays or students who are "at-risk"
* Summative evaluations and therapeutic determinations
* Readiness tests to assess an individual's developmental achievement in specific skills before successfully transitioning into new learning environments
* Observational and performance assessments are on-going as to progress the child’s development
Constructs of greatest focus, to these batteries of testing and treatment include general development, attention, executive functioning and social-emotional development.
Developmental vision screening and assessments do not infer a diagnosis. Rather, they are an in-depth assessments of a child’s skills and performance, profiling areas of strengths and weaknesses. This information is then integrated into the child’s treatment plan, which is applied both inside and out of our office.
Please feel free to forward any questions to: cvmbarbara@aol.com
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