Vision Therapy

WHAT ARE HECOSTIX?

We’ve taken a simple game of playing catch and added a twist! Each leg is colored in a fashion that allows participants to call a color or hand combination and then throw the HECOstix to the receiver. The person receiving must process the information while the HECOstix are in the air and catch the corresponding color or hand combination called. Seems easy right?

CALL THE COLOR

THROW THE HECOSTIX

CATCH THE COLOR

A hands-on, entertaining and visually stimulating activity, Racethe8s™ can be enjoyed by almost any individual. Racethe8s™ was created by Steven Kane, OTR, a Pediatric Occupational Therapist with over 20 years experience.

Racethe8s™1 has two sides, each with a myriad of possible ways to use it. It can be held by the side handles creating a lateral movement of the balls or by the interior handles creating an anterior/posterior movement of the balls. One side of Racethe8s™1 is a more linear version of an 8 pattern, while the other side creates a ‘wiggle’ pattern of the 8 pattern.

Racethe8s™ 2 has two sides, each with a myriad of possible ways to use it. Use the side handles to create movement of the balls. One side of Racethe8s™2 is a labyrinth, an ancient pattern intended to create focus and attention to an ‘inner world’. It has one way into the center and one way out from the center. The other side creates a 3 tracked pattern of the 8 pattern. This becomes an increasingly more difficult activity as you attempt to switch tracks in the middle or make the ball go around only one half of the 8 using a variety of tracks.

There are 3 rubber balls and 1 marble supplied with each Racethe8s track. This is intended to offer a variety of colors, textures and visual stimulation. The rubber balls create slightly more friction in the tracks, while the marble makes the action faster.

The Form Recognition Field Card is based on procedures developed by Lawrence W. Macdonald, O.D., and J. Baxter Swartwout, O.D. The chart is printed on grey cardstock for more contrast in the background. The card includes a fine circle and dot for a central figure, which is more sensitive to a blur, should it occur. In addition, the border provides even more awareness aspects. As the border and edge are noted, awareness of the rest of the room and what is beyond the card becomes apparent. This card can be used not only for form recognition, but also with modified plus acceptance routines and any other procedure which would be enhanced by this type of target and awareness factors.

Peripheral awareness chart develops the ability to maintain fixation over time. It also improves peripheral awareness and helps to avoid peripheral vision restrictions and to reduce visual stress.

Cardboard chart, size: 32 x 32 cm.

Sold in Package of 30

Translucent
Peripheral Awareness Chart
(Package of 10)

It has same feature of the cardboard version, but it is made of plastic translucent material, easy to use behind the window.