My dd has nystagmus - her eyes have a horizontal movement sometimes. It does seem to be gradually getting better as she gets older.
I’m wondering if anyone does any eye strengthening excercises with their kids & what they involve.
Thanks! 
I did read before that it is better to look at something by focusing on one spot then moving to the next spot beside it etc… rather than just taking in the whole picture…its better for your eyes this way… try it you’ll get what i mean… you can also do this as an excercise but I am not sure how you would get a child to do that though…
The Tweedlewink videos have two great exercises, one in which you follow a moving flower around the screen, and another called PhotoEyePlay, in which you look at a picture that flashes contrasting colors. It helps to develop the rods and cones in the eye. Here is a download for LR that does the same thing. http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?sa=view;id=2564
There are also some ppt presentations that someone uploaded a while back that have an object moving around the screen to follow like I mentioned above. You might want to try them.
I think the Wink course has a similar PhotoEyePlay method. Maybe you can buy it separately to use. Although I am not sure if you can use it for young children. I would go on there site http://www.rightbrainkids.com/ and see. Maybe even email them support@rightbrainkids.com. They are very helpful, and you will get a personal response.
Thanks for the replies.
nhockaday - I’ve tried to download the LR photo eyeplay, but it doesn’t seem to work for me. Originally I got the picture only & now I only get the sound. I’ve tried it several times. I assume it is working for everyone else, or it wouldn’t have been approved so I can’t figure out why it is not downloading properly. 
I do have the ppt presentations of a ball & butterfly, but I think K is getting a little bored of those.
I will look into the Wink stuff. 
Hi, I am the one that submitted the LR eyeplay file. What I did was make a video out of my power point. So, since the media in LR is a video instead of images, you need to make sure the “video on” option is checked.
I hope it works for you, my little guy gets a little tranced by it. You could also turn the sound off and just read something else. I just thought that poem was fun to read. If you can’t get it to work, it was pretty easy to make in power point. I made a few different colored ones. I think I read the best colors to use are blue, green, or red. But I could be way off on that. :wub:
Thanks I’ll try that. It’s a great idea - Karma to you. Are you planning to make any more?
I also thought I would add - crawling in cross pattern on hands and knees (actually at the IAHP they call it creeping) develops a child’s vision. I am not familiar with nystagmus but I know that crawling is one of the most important brain-developing exercises that they use with brain-injured children.
I don’t have an exact quote but I remember Glenn Doman once saying (in the Physically Superb book) “Show me any culture that did not have floors and I will tell you of its primitiveness. Show me one that had floors and I will tell you of its civilization.”
It has been said that “Civilization is 18 inches away” because that is the distance at which we read, write, and draw. Crawling develops this near-sighted vision and if you look at any culture that had safe floors for their babies to crawl on, you will see all the wonders of civilization. Greece, Egypt, and all of the other great ancient civilizations had safe floors for their babies to crawl on. Primitive cultures, on the other hand, where their babies did not have safe floors to crawl on, have far-sighted vision that enables them to shoot down a bird in a tree 18 feet away with a bow and arrow, but do not have the developed near-sighted vision that enables them to create and read a written language, nor to draw anything other than simplistic, almost unmentionable art.
There’s a lot more information on the importance of crawling but just thought I’d share that little nugget about the importance of crawling in developing vision!
Thanks Doman Mom!
I do have the physically superb book & am trying to follow it. Kay started with a homologous crawl for 3.5 months, then started intermitantly creeping. She has consistantly been creeping in a pattern for about 5 months now. I try not to encourage walking, but find that when she wants down in a public place or somewhere where it is inappropriate to creep, I don’t have any option but to let her walk holdiing my hands. The alternative is a child struggling & screaming to get down. We rarely use a stroller or other restraining device so she really likes to be active. Do you think it is bad to encourage walking in this way? I would love for her to be walking in the next few months when outside winter sports start because it will be very hard to keep her occupied for the 8 - 10 hours a week we spend with older dd’s sports, not including time spent away from home for other reasons. I am trying not to rush her though.
For some background - K has down syndrome so while she seems a little slow on some of these milestones she is actually quite a ways ahead of schedule on the DS milestone charts. I really think she is doing very well cognitively too, so maybe all that crawling is benefitting her in that way.
thanks again, I really appreciate your knowledge in this thread & many others I have read.