08/09/2023
Spot on!! Thank you, Occuplay, Inc and Nancy Marin for sharing!!
Friends,
Think how often we close our eyes just to think better, to listen to the music, to experience the wine, to relish the smell of the flowers or to the feel the sensation of our loved-one's lips on ours. When you do any of these activities with your eyes open it's just not the same, is it?
While you do seeing (seeing is something we do) you aren't fully available for whatever else it is you're doing. That's because seeing is using up so many resources, it drains the system. So we naturally sometimes close our eyes when we want to get more in touch with what else we are doing. However, it's noteworthy that the other senses aren't quite as draining on our resources. After all, we never block our ears and nose just to see better, do we?
So now we appreciate how resource-draining seeing can be, we can appreciate how, when a student is doing all the things they need to do visually when reading, they might not have enough resources left for all the visual and language processing they need to do in order to learn deeply.
So exploring the visual efficiency of our patients at least as thoroughly as we're checking everything else is important. And it's a worthy step in starting to find out for our patients how well they "do seeing". After all, seeing is something we do.
