Vision training program ups IQ, cuts rearrest rate of juvenile delinquents

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I dug up this bit of 21 year old research the other day while

looking for a link to the Brain/Mind Bulletin. I thought I'd pass

it on.

 

Alobar

 

 

 

Vision training program ups IQ, cuts rearrest rate of juvenile

delinquents

 

The rate at which hard-core juvinile delinquents are rearrested had

declined after a program of vision training.

 

Approximately half the delinquents discharged from a San Bernardino,

Calif., juvenile facility normally are rearrested. In an ongoing

program, only 10 per cent of those who received vision training were

rearrested.

 

Of more than 1,000 Juvinile Hall residents screned by optometrist

Stanley Kaseno, 96 per cent had vision problems - usually poor

eyemovement. The relationship between poor vision and aberrant

psychological development only recentloy has become widely

recogniced.

 

The average patient in Kaseno's juvenile program is 16 years old, has

an IQ of 96 and reads at only the fifth grade level. Despite this

Kaseno considers these delinquents to have above-average

intelligence. " Dummies don't commit crimes, " he said. " Thet are too

passive. "

 

After 12 vision training sessions and a fittingn of eyeglasses, if

needed, such patients have improved their readin skills by four grade

levels, increased their IQ's raised thei self-esteem and adopted a

more positive value system.

 

Vision training is one of the most popular activities in the juvinile

facility. " Since we are the first ones to understand their problems,

we have immediate rapport with them, " saidBlanche Brandt, an

assistant to Kaseno.

 

Kaseno implemented the juvinile program after reading seven studies

that linked learning disabilities and delinquency. Althrough the

program does not help everyone, Review of Optometry (November, 1982)

reported that for every failure there are 10 success stories.

 

Kaseno: 202 N Waterman Avenue, Suite C, San Bernardino 92404

 

Brain Mind Bulletin December 13, 1982

 

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