Behavioural optometrist

We were told by the SENCO that the Behavioural optometrist may be able to help, can these professionals make their titles sound anymore confusing!

http://www.babo.co.uk/what-is-behavioural-optometry/

Apparently its possible to get an appointment at the local hospital to see a Behav Optometrist, but the waits can go on forever. So luckily the SENCO knew a lovely lady who was able to see us, and who worked as a behavioural optometrist at a relatively local opticians.

I got the idea that she looked at how the eyes worked, but beyond that I didnt have a clue ( as usual).

She asked a ton of questions and spent a long time looking at how his eyes worked. The main conclusions were that he might benefit from tinted glasses, that his eyes were hugely light sensitive, and that they didnt track the words properly.

As a stop gap before getting blue glasses, she suggested using sunglasses, and tinted over lays. We tried the overlays for a while but they didnt seem to help much, however the sunglasses did seem to help a little. We were very lucky that the school were understanding and happily approved him wearing the shades during lessons.

We were given some worksheets to help him with his tracking and it was also suggested that we give him a ruler to underline the row he is on, and to lessen the amount for him to look at. The ruler does seem to help, but he is not great at using it.

We are due to go back for another appointment to see if anything has changed, as soon as I get my finger out and book one.