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Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and How Light Therapy Helps

November 25, 2020Seasonal Affective Disorder, Therapeutic Approaches, Trauma and Stress, Visual Processing

If you are like me, the end of fall/beginning of winter marks the time when the skies get a little darker and the temps a little colder, and the desire to jump out of bed, change out of my comfortable athleisurewear and leave my warm home to do anything diminishes. However, the weather is not the only thing that seems to change and impact my motivation at this time of the year.

The overall experience of colder and longer darkened days can have quite an impact on our moods and behaviors as well, which many refer to as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). So, it is no wonder that as we are going into the winter months with a pandemic that is still affecting the majority of our country and the rules to maintain social distance with family and friends continue that we may be hearing of many more people experiencing the symptoms associated with SAD.
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What Are Visual Processing Issues?

August 18, 2020Sensory Processing, Visual Processing

It can feel like groundhog day almost all the time trying to get your child to do their schoolwork and homework. It is a struggle to get them to go online and check-in or do assignments and forget about them doing any of it on their own! They seem to continually have a difficult time reading, copying work from the smartboard, and remembering what they just read. Their self-confidence has been slowly diminishing, and they miss the most obvious social cues from other children their age. You know that they can see as you just went and had their eyes checked, and they were given a 20/20, clean bill of health. It feels like they are just not seeing what is right in front of their noses!
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What Is Light Therapy and How Can It Help?

August 18, 2020Therapeutic Approaches, Visual Processing

There is a lot of buzz and talk lately about light therapy and the effects that it can have one a person. It is also a frequent topic of questioning that I get when people walk by our therapy rooms and look in inquisitively. They see our syntonic lights and question how it could help them or their children. Other times I have someone come in for a consult or visit to the clinic and just come out and ask, “What is this light therapy program I keep hearing about?”