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Optometry Faculty Completes Comprehensive Textbook Update
While attending an American Academy of Optometry meeting several years ago, Mary Bartuccio O.D., assistant professor at Nova Southeastern University’s College of Optometry spoke with Marc Taub O.D. Taub is a fellow faculty member at Southern College of Optometry. The duo discussed the need for a comprehensive update to the textbooks that focus on the vision needs of special groups. Seven years later, Bartuccio and the contributors to her textbook can finally see the fruits of their labor in print. Visual Diagnosis and the Care of the Patient with Special Needs is available for pre-order on Amazon and other booksellers, and will be available for purchase and use in classrooms in May. The textbook is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. The purpose of this book is to further the understanding and treatment of frequently encountered developmental and acquired disabilities seen in the eye.
Some of these disabilities include autism, brain injury, Down syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, as well as those with psychiatric illness, dual diagnosis, and others. The authors note that since vision is the dominant sense involved in practically every task we undertake, it is important for all professionals to understand how various anomalies of vision affect their patients’ interaction with the environment.
Therefore, in addition to fanfare from the optometric and ophthalmic communities, the book can also serve as an excellent resource for those in the occupational therapy, physical therapy, pediatric medicine, physiatry, social work, psychiatry, speech and language therapy and other professions. Of note, numerous NSU College of Optometry faculty members are contributing authors to this endeavor including Deborah Amster, Rachel Coulter, Nadine Girgis, Erin Jenewein, Jacqueline Rodena and Yin Tea.