Move Look & Listen Podcast with Dr. Douglas Stephey

In this episode you will learn why seeing 20/20 is simply not enough. Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. will explain how the three circle Venn diagram of vision will most likely show that your last eye exam may have come up short to enable you to move, look, and listen through your life with ease.

Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S.

208 West Badillo St. Covina, CA 91723

Phone: 626-332-4510

Website: http://bit.ly/DouglasWStepheyWebsite

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What the heck is a magnocellular neuron you say? Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S. will tell us why is it important to attention, movement, reading, and understanding where we are in space. Furthermore, the magnocellular visual pathway also plays a role in staying out of being in a perpetual state of fight or flight. This visual pathway will be explained in easy to understand detail and will be differentiated from the parvocellular or...

"If you want to understand the whole child you must understand their visual system and if you want to understand their visual system you must understand the whole child.” - Famed Yale pediatrician, Dr. Arnold Lucius Gesell

Vision therapy is a brain-based program of "eye exercises" designed to change the way one’s neural networks control any variety of visual skills which are assessed and remediated. Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S pr...

An advocate for children diagnosed with dyslexia, specific learning disability, ADHD, autism, conduct disorder, oppositional defiance disorder, and any other students in special education, Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S provides valuable information regarding Child Find regulations and why students with IEP's and 504 plans are not being comprehensively assessed. Strategies will be provided on how to get what your child needs to move...

>80-90% of kids on the spectrum can't move, look, and listen in a fast, accurate, effortless, sustainable-appropriate, and meaningful way. This results in high fear, high anxiety, high distractibility, and will leave your child in a perpetual state of fight or flight or your child will simply adapt and learn how to not pay attention. In this episode, Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S provides information regarding children on the Autis...

Did you know that both good and bad fats play a huge role in the development of your visual system and brain? Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S discusses the power fish oil supplements have in changing the course of inflammation in our body and brain. The arachidonic (pro-inflammatory) and eicosapentaenoic (anti-inflammatory) acid levels will be discussed: how to measure them and how to reverse this ratio when elevated.

Douglas W. Step...

Dr. Stephey welcomes Celeste Palmer to the Move Look & Listen Podcast. Celeste is a brain injury survivor and the founder of Bridging the Gap, a traumatic brain injury support group & resource network.

With roughly 1.2 million optic nerve neurons per eye, there's almost no who escaping the negative visual consequences when suffering from a brain injury. Dr. Stephey and Celeste discuss how memory, gait, balance, risk-of-fall injury,...

Dr. Doug Stephey explains how to effectively advocate for your child and their IEP or a 504 plan needs regardless of their qualifying diagnosis- autism, ADHD, dyslexia, conduct disorder, specific learning disability, reading disorder, central auditory processing disorder, sensory integration dysfunction, dyspraxia, or clumsy child syndrome. 

You will learn about Child Find regulations and the value what it means to have your child ...

Dr Stephey discusses the aging visual system and several common eye disorders associated with aging: glaucoma, cataracts, macular degeneration, and dry eyes.  You will also learn how the visual system affects memory, gait, balance, attention, the risk of injury due to a fall, and memory.

Douglas W. Stephey, O.D., M.S.

208 West Badillo St Covina, CA 91723

Phone: 626-332-4510

Website: http://bit.ly/DouglasWStephey

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If you have migraines, are bothered by fluorescent lighting, bright sunlight and glare, movement in your periphery, and regular repeating patterns such as stripes, i.e.- print, there might be more to what’s causing your headache.

Dr Stephey will discuss how binocular vision problems may be the cause of your headaches, dizziness, and vertigo. Moreover, if you get tired and sleepy when reading, lose your place, have poor reading comp...

Dr Stephey's guest today is Kelly Dorfman, author of Cure Your Child With Food. We'll be discussing: strategies for the picky eater, the role of zinc in taste and smell acuity, fish oil and omega 3 faty acids in attention and dyslexia, and the role of phosphatidylcholine in dyspraxia (childhood clumsiness disorder) and dysgraphia (handwriting challenges).

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What is Dyslexia? This episode with Dr Garth Christenson, an optometrist from Hudson, Wisconsin and co-author of the Decoding Encoding Dyslexia Screener discusses how dyslexia is diagnosed, the sub types of dyslexia (dysphonesia vs dyseidesia, or the combine type), multisensory teaching strategies, the role of optometry, and vision therapy and dyslexia (dispelling the myths from the realities).

This episode is for parents of kids w...

The Pervasive Role of Vision in Sensory Integration and Other Brain Based Disorders.

Dr. Ingryd Lorenzana from Schaumburg, Illinois discusses the model she and Dr. Stephey have developed over the years in getting to the root cause of why your child may have been diagnosed with a sensory processing disorder, dysgraphia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia, dyslexia, ADHD, or other learning challenges.

This episode is for parents of such kids, as...

Join Dr. Stephey and retired Army surgeon & co-founder of Brainspan Labratories, Dr. Dan Johnston for a discussion of the Brainspan test which is available from the office of Dr. Stephey.

Taking the Brainspan test can be the first line of defense against aging, inflammation, vascular disease and poor brain function at any age.

Silent inflammation is a killer and affects every cell in the body.  Listen in if you have a learning disa...

Dr. Stephey discusses the brain-vision connection with Dr. Jay Faber, an integrative psychiatrist from The Amen Clinic.

Specifically, they will  discuss the role vision plays in brain imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of attention and other mood regulating disorders for patients who have been diagnosed with ADHD, autism, and various mental health issues. 

Contact Dr. Faber: www.AmenC...

Emily Stouffer joins Dr Stephey to discuss how we teach reading to both beginning and struggling readers with one of the most effective and fastest ways to do so: The Phono-Graphix method and the book Reading Reflex.

This episode is a great resource for teachers or parents with students and children struggling with dyslexia, learning disability, reading disorder, ADHD, ADD, convergence insufficiency, oculomotor skills, eye strain, ...

Emily Stouffer joins Dr. Stephey again to discuss her own visual outcomes from when she was a kid until she came to California more than 10 years ago to see Dr Stephey.

Emily shares her experiences of being clumsy, having challenges with attention, suffering from chronic postural issues, and having a brilliant mind but often struggling with fatigue. In this episode you will learn about postural prisms and how lenses can have positi...

Dr. Doug Stephey welcomes Dr. Marla Omar DC, CAK of Tri-City Chiropractic Clinic in Walnut, California discuss what it means to be a neurologic chiropractor and the role the visual system plays in movement, posture, gait, balance, and gut function.

Please visit this link to see the video Dr. Stephey references in this episode regarding the miracle of blue lenses: https://vimeo.com/324751244

Dr. Marla Omar, D.C., C.A.K. Tri-City Chi...

Dr. Doug Stephey welcomes back Dr. Marla Omar DC, CAK of Tri-City Chiropractic Clinic in Walnut, California discuss the role retained primitive reflexes play in overall development. Although these reflexes have been reported in the literature for decades they continue to be overlooked by education, medicine, and many therapy practices.

Dr. Marla Omar, D.C., C.A.K. Tri-City Chiropractic Clinic 100 Pierre Road Suite A Walnut, CA 9178...