Our OT suggested it for DS so we did a screening last spring. The screening was with an optometrist who then referred DS to a 'center' the next town over. When I got the call from the center to follow up with an assessment it turned out the center was owned by the optometrist wife and son. No one had mentioned the conflict of interest to me. Certainly not the first husband and wife in the same industry but it just set some radar off, kwim. When I mentioned the whole thing to DH he put his foot down - it turned out his parents had spent $$ at the center trying to help his brother with his vision issues. Several years later he was diagnosed with MS and in hindsight everyone wonders if the vision issues were non diagnosed early symptoms and that they waste possibly time and money. When I revisited with OT she agreed it all felt a little squirrelly but that's the only game in town, we'd have to drive a couple hours to do something else. I took DS to my and DH's optometrist for a check up in Dec and asked him about it. He was very politic and said he really didn't know anything about it. The verdicts out for me - from that checkout we learned DS will likely get glasses this year (same as I did), we probably won't pursue VT w/out some compelling reason to think it would help (and probably not in this area) - I'd at least want to try and get the assessment at a different place than the therapy if possible.
~ Dawn
Our little monkey (4/2011) & his early holiday present 12/12