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Known to be avascular and receives it’s oxygen directly from the air and tears.

What is the Cornea?

100

Eye chart

Who is Snellen?

100

Famous patient account of seeing stereo published in the New Yorker

What is “Stereo Sue” Written by Oliver Sacks?

100

Rope, A city, Nursery rhymes, An often feared character all have this in common.

What are vectograms?

100

Visual acuity alone does not adequately characterize this condition.

What is amblyopia?

200

The Ganglion cell layer and photoreceptor layer are all part of this necessary structure. 

What is the retina?

200

String with 3 beads

What is a Brock String?

200

Introduces the Zone of Simultaneous Awareness

What is ”The Shape of the Sky” by David Cook?

200

Lore has it that this procedure was developed to Help fighter pilots control their bodies while flying planes in wartime. 

What is the Randolph Shuffle?

200

Along with robot zapping this activity involves interaction with multiple spatial planes.

What is moon boot dusting?

300

This eye component boasts approximately 256 unique identifiers, making it more reliable than fingerprints for bio identification . 

What is the iris?

300

Large touch screen TV

What is the Sanet Vision Integrator? SVI

300

Written by vision therapists for vision therapists as a first step to learning VT.

What is the Vision Therapist Toolkit, by Tom Headline, Vicki Bedes and Irene Wahlmeier, COVT?

300

Start and stop at the same time, this procedure is mostly completed supine. it can work on gross motor, bilateral integration and reflexes just to name a few

What are angels in the snow?

300

Divided attention, cognitive challenge for oculomotor skills.

What is anti-saccade?

400

If you laid each of these end to end, it would create approximately 98 feet per eye throughout a humans lifetime. 

What are eyelashes?

400

Red and green emergency flashing lights

What are Press lights?

400

Volumes 1 and 2 of this series are considered by some as the “Bible” of Vision Therapy.

What is Applied Concepts in Vision Therapy by Len Press et al?

400

Using mirrors, this stereoscope was known by another name reminiscent of its shape. 

What is the flying W?

400

When the brain has difficulty interpreting self-motion vs environmental motion

What is Optic Flow Intolerance?

500

One of the functions of this is to maintain fluid homeostasis and it’s considered one of the most structurally unique vessels of the entire human body.

What is the canal of Schlemm?

500

Vision therapist alphabet peripheral card

What is the Lora Card? (Lora McGraw)

500

This OEP paper from the 90’s discusses this noun and its impact in VT. 

What is “Self-esteem and vision therapy” by Ellen Severtson?

500

Used in a synoptophore this slide appears to move forward and back and uses flowers as suppression checks. 

What is a Flom Swing?

500

This tumor does not originate from the pituitary and is more common in females 2:1.

What is a meningioma?