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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Why I Wrote This Book | |
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| Social and Optical Pressures | |
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| A New Attitude | |
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| How to Use This Book | |
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| Who Can Benefit from Using This Book? | |
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| Guidelines to Keep in Mind | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| No More Glasses | |
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| A Fresh View of Children's Vision | |
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| People and Glasses | |
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| A Brief History of Glasses | |
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| Children in Glasses | |
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| The Beginning of the Janet Goodrich Method | |
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| Those Who Wanted Children Out of Glasses | |
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| Honored Voices Ignored | |
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| A Natural Way to Healing | |
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| Causes of Imperfect Eyesight | |
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| What Is Eyesight? | |
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| Who Says It's Faulty? | |
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| Testing Vision Creates Blur | |
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| Vision Fluctuates | |
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| Theories Proposed and Rejected | |
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| Don't Discuss Feelings | |
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| The World at Large | |
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| The Real Cause of Faulty Vision | |
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| The Optical Industry and Natural Vision Improvement | |
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| Professional Offerings | |
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| Ophthalmologists Are Medical Doctors | |
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| Optometrists Are Everywhere | |
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| Natural Vision Improvement Method Teachers | |
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| How to Help Your Eye Doctor Give You What You Want | |
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| The Office Visit | |
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| Researching Surgery | |
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| Obtaining and Using Transition Glasses | |
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| Prescription Guidelines | |
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| Parent Power and Home Science | |
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| Two Views of Parents | |
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| Healing the Parent | |
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| Home Science As the New Authority | |
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| Keeping a Vision Journal | |
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| Your Own History | |
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| This Wonderful Child | |
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| Doctors' Reports and Prescriptions | |
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| A Child Grows Vision | |
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| What Is a Child? | |
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| Is Childhood Special? | |
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| The Self-Regulated Child | |
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| Babies Are the Real Experts | |
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| Stages of Growth | |
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| Keen Eyesight for Every Child | |
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| Your Child's Electric Body | |
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| Use Reflex Points to Help Vision | |
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| Preverbal Language | |
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| What About "Born with It"? | |
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| Point Holding | |
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| Massage Muscles Related to Eyesight | |
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| Timetable for Massage and Point Holding | |
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| Vision Is Alive and Well in the Brain | |
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| Eyes Are Ruled by the Brain | |
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| Dueling Hemispheres | |
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| More Compassion Please | |
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| Timetable for Cross-Crawl | |
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| The Question of Dominance | |
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| Eyes Must Move to See | |
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| Eyes Grasp the World with Saccadic Motion | |
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| Babies Don't Stare | |
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| Rock-a-Bye My Baby | |
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| Rocking, Rolling, Bouncing | |
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| Muscles behind the Movement | |
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| How We Create Blurred Vision | |
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| Timetable for Movement | |
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| Nuclear Vision | |
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| Timetable for Nuclear Vision Games | |
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| Mad about Sunlight | |
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| Are Sunglasses Good for Kids? | |
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| Light Food for Thought | |
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| Why Eyes Need Sunlight | |
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| Color Therapy | |
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| Timetable for Sunning | |
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| Children Relax with Imagination and Color | |
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| Are Children Relaxed? | |
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| Home Again in the Self | |
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| Autosuggestion Training | |
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| Timetable for Colors and Imagining | |
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| Feelings and Eyesight | |
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| What Do You Feel? | |
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| Seven Emotions | |
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| Timetable for Emotional Expression | |
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| Winning Eye Tests without Glasses | |
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| The Unspoken Obligation in Eye Tests | |
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| What Is Reading? | |
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| Emotions and Reading | |
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| Specific Programs for Specific Problems | |
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| Myopia | |
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| What Is Myopia? | |
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| When Does Myopia Start? | |
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| Transition Glasses for Young Myopes | |
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| Think Twice about Surgery | |
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| What Myopia Feels Like Inside | |
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| The Myopia/Hyperopia Connection | |
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| Reversing Myopia with NVI | |
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| Timetable for Myopia Games | |
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| Hyperopia | |
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| What Is Hyperopia? | |
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| Many Children Outgrow Hyperopia | |
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| What Hyperopia Feels Like Inside | |
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| Reversing Hyperopia with NVI | |
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| Timetable for Hyperopia Games | |
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| Astigmatism | |
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| What Is Astigmatism? | |
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| The Cause of Astigmatism | |
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| How Correction Is Determined | |
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| It Appears and Disappears | |
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| An Astigmatism Prescription | |
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| Erase Astigmatism with NVI | |
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| What Astigmatism Feels Like Inside | |
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| Other Therapies | |
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| Strabismus and Lazy Eyes | |
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| What Is Strabismus? | |
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| Why Eyes Turn | |
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| The Medical Response | |
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| Behavioral Optometrists Train Turned Eyes | |
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| Cranial Adjustment | |
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| Your Options | |
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| Straighten Turned Eyes with NVI | |
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| Timetable for Phoria Ball Games | |
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| Timetable for Strabismus | |
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| Heading for Fusion | |
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| Fusion | |
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| What Is Fusion? | |
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| The Physical Side of Fusion | |
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| Reasons for Not Fusing | |
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| Why Is Fusion Important? | |
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| When to Do Fusion Games | |
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| Alternating Vision | |
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| Timetable for Fusion | |
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| Home and School Environments | |
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| Sugar and Sore Eyes | |
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| Bodies Are Made of Food | |
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| Sugar Blues | |
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| Sugar Hit Parade | |
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| Why People Want Sugar | |
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| What You Can Do | |
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| A Good Start | |
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| Your Child's Room | |
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| Lighting, Computers, Homework | |
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| Design a Vision Nest for Eaglets | |
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| Outdoor Play Areas | |
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| The Hazardous Classroom | |
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| History of Western Schooling | |
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| New Hazards for Old | |
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| Posture and Seeing | |
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| A Great Day for Eyes at School | |
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| Children in the Fast Lane | |
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| Parents Make It Happen | |
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| Assets and Support | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Recommended Reading | |
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| Resources | |
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| Index | |