Research Articles

These are research articles that Dr. Attiyah will reference frequently to educate patients on the many benefits of optometric vision therapy for post-concussion, binocular vision disorders, learning deficits, and sports performance. Click the links below to access the full articles.

• 2017 Glenn A. Fry Award Lecture: Establishing an Evidence-based Literature for Vision Therapy - A 25 Year Journey

• Vision therapy for oculomotor dysfunctions in acquired brain injury: a retrospective analysis

• Vision Therapy for Post-Concussion Vision Disorders

• The convergence insufficiency treatment trial: design, methods, and baseline data

• Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial – Attention and Reading Trial (CITT-ART): Design and Methods

• The Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial: Design, Methods, and Baseline Data

• Amblyopia and the binocular approach to its therapy

• The effects of Monocular Training on Binocular Functions in Anisometropic Amblyopia

• Impact of active vision therapy compared to conventional patching therapy on visual acuity and stereoacuity in children with amblyopia

• A review of normative data for parameters of functional non-strabismic binocular vision

• Postconcussion: Receded Near Point of Convergence is not Diagnostic of Convergence Insufficiency

• Mechanics of accommodation of the human eye

• Accommodative Insufficiency: Prevalence, Impact and Treatment Options

• Clinical Evaluation of Ocular and Visual Functions in Insulin-Dependent Juvenile Diabetics

• Effects of Prism Eyeglasses on Objective and Subjective Fixation Disparity

• Tolerance to Prism Induced by Readymade Spectacles: Setting and Using a Standard

• Evaluating Relative Accommodations in General Binocular Dysfunctions

• Accommodative Insufficiency

Books to read:

1. Applied Concepts in Vision Therapy by Leonard Press
2. Clinical Management of Binocular Vision: Heterophoric, Accommodative, and Eye Movement Disorders by Mitchell Scheiman and Bruce Wick
3. Fixing My Gaze by Susan Barry
4. Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation by William Padula
5. Optometric Management of Learning-Related Vision Problems by Michael Rouse and Mitchell Scheiman
6. The Shape of the Sky by David Cook
7. Visual & Vestibular Consequences of Acquired Brain Injury by Irwin Suchoff, Kenneth Ciuffreda, and Neera Kapoor