Visual stimming, Hyper-peripheral vission & Pleoptics

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If any of you have problems with hyper-peripheral issues ie. child has poor

central detail vision or your child has a lot of visual stims, you might want to

try pleoptics. A child with hyper-peripheral vision can often read as fast as

'anything' but has a hard time locating a pencil on a messy desk! ie. Has a

hard time locating the objects when playing with the book, " Where's Waldo " .

Which is a very good book to 'work' this for our kids by the way!

For hyper-peripheral issues, we used pleoptics. Very simple to do. You take a

penny and crazy-glue it to the center of a flashlight. To the count of 3 you

shine the flashlight at the center of the child's eye (dominant side first if

child has one yet) so that the penny covers the macula (center of the eye) thus

it must be quite close. Cover the other eye with your hand at the same time.

Then you remove for a count of 8. Removing for a count of 8, gives time for the

eye to send the appropriate 'message' to the brain. Then you do the second eye,

holding for a count of 3, removing for a count of 8. Go back and forth between

the eyes for 2 minutes and perform at least 2 times per day.

Pleoptics is very good to work with visual stimming. When a child does visual

stims, they are using hyper-peripheral vision and pleoptics work central detail

vision. So, those of you out there with 'extreme' visual stimmers, get a

flashlight and whenever your child begins to stim, do pleoptics on them and

'work' that central vision. Carry that flashlight with you and do pleoptics

often.

Pleoptics are not uncomfortable, they are actually quite pleasent (tried them on

myself too) and Mark had absolutely no issues with this exercise for the 3

months we needed to do them.

Janice