What our Patients say about us...

Thanks a lot for your dedication to Great Vision.  We are extremely proud to say you are Tamia’s eye care giver.

God bless.

Tamia S. & family

Learning to read was very difficult for Lea.  Fortunately, however, there was a way to help her with the learning difficulties she was having in school.  Vision Therapy was the answer.

Vision Therapy has opened a door for Lea to be able to walk through and learn important educational subjects that build a foundation for accomplishments in life.  The precious time Lea spent with Cheryl, her therapist, eliminated her vision problems.  Her reading has improved, and she is beginning to feel more confident about herself.  I am very thankful for having the opportunity to place Leah in Dr. Gottlieb's Vision Therapy.

Sincerely,

Judy B.

 Since beginning vision therapy Matthew has made notable programs in school.  His grades have improved from C's and D's to A's and B's.  This improvement has increased his self-esteem.  He is happier and is not as frustrated as before.  He has began to read for pleasure, this has opened up new interest for him.  There are several subjects that he has persisted in his reading.  His organizational skills have improved.  He now organizes his toys and personal items therefore, keeping his room neater.  In general, vision therapy has not only improved his vision, but his life as well.

 Scott struggles through kindergarten, developmental 1st grade and 2nd grades.  He was thought to be immature, possibly lazy, with a short attention span.  The real problem was a focusing problem in one eye.  After 4 months of therapy, he is for the first time in his life staying on task.  His work habits have improved along with reading skills and grades.  Most importantly though his self-esteem has developed.  He now feels positive about himself and what he can accomplish.  B's are suddenly not good enough for him.  He wants to make all A's.

 

I can not express what a blessing Gottlieb Vision Group has been to Andrea and to me.  Andrea had trouble reading and spelling.  After years of trying to find out what was causing these problems they offered not only the cause but a solution.  Andrea's confidence has increased greatly.  Her reading and spelling have steadily increased over the last nine months and her headaches have disappeared.  Cheryl, Andrea's therapist, has been super!  She has been patient and encouraging yet prodding when necessary.  I only wish more teachers and doctors would consider vision therapy before labeling a child "learning disabled" on performing surgery to correct a vision problem.  Our deepest gratitude to everyone at Gottlieb Vision Group.

 

    Angie and I are grateful for your help with Tripp.  He had an early kindergarten diagnosis for dyslexia and attention deficient disorder.  Tripp was enrolled in extensive remedial education therapy and even receiving individual psychiatric care.  Tripp required Adderall to overcome ADD and Luvox to lessen the tension caused by the Adderall.  He was a very rigid, humorless little boy.

    What we did not know prior to your diagnosis, in February of last week, of involuntary eye movement at the midline and slow focusing from distance to near and back was the incredible effort Tripp was making everyday in the simple task of trying to read to trying to go from the board to his paper and back again.  The strain was leading to his ADD problem and stress in everyday tasks.  He could not be expected to apply that level of concentration for very long.

    Since working with Bobby Dull on eye exercises Tripp began to change.  In July we removed him from all medications.  Tripp became able to lengthen his attention as his stress level decreased.  His personality transformed into one of laughter and wit.  His only current aids are Learning Lab several times each week at school and a Group to aid his social skills.  Lab is helpful in getting him some individual attention by reducing his class size for a short time each week to eight or less students.  Group is helpful as he is only now beginning to discern the difference between jokes and teasing.

    After rambling on for too long I just want to close by emphasizing that corrective eye therapy made it possible for Tripp to eliminate his medications.  By eliminating the medications we now have a truly happy little boy, who while behind in his social skills, is making great strides in catching up.  The difference must be experienced it does not do it justice to merely describe it.

Sincerely,

Samuel F.

July 25, 2002

Ray and Maria G. are going off to California.  We have so enjoyed our opportunities to work with them.  They came to me initially at the referral of Kelvin Moore, an Occupational Therapist who was committed to seeing Maria reach her optimum abilities and to help the family with all of the challenges before them.  We dedicate this tribute to Kelvin’s memory.  He will always have a place in our hearts.

Dr. Dan; Robert Berry, Director of Optical; Stacey Kesler, Intern from ICO; Maria and Ray

Hi, my name is Reynaldo, husband of Maria; she’s been a patient of Dr. Danny Gottlieb since the beginning of 1998.  This recording is intended to describe some of the success that Maria has achieved through vision therapy treatment received from Dr. Gottlieb.  Maria first came here to Dr. Gottlieb’s office in the beginning of 1998 and Dr. Gottlieb immediately seen all of the damage Maria had to her vision.  He prescribe her a set of prism system for her vision, along with that, she started doing vision therapy with Marianne Johnson and continued to do that with Marianne for about three years.  Maria’s outcome from the vision therapy and the use of the prism system along with a PRIO computer glasses for the computer use has been very, very good, very substantial, she has gained a lot of vision in both eyes.  We are now starting to see a lot more improvement in the right eye.  She has continued to show improvements in her vision to the point that she has now taken off her glasses and says that she sees much better without the glasses.  Dr. Gottlieb has found out that she needs a change in her prescription and he’s going to be changing the right lens on her prism system along with changing the complete set of the PRIO glasses.  Maria just finished syntonics phototherapy last week with Sharyn and we are very impressed with the outcome of that therapy.  We understand that syntonics is not for everybody and the results vary but Maria has been showing improvements since beginning treatment with Sharyn and we feel that that syntonics phototherapy has been great for Maria.  We are very happy with the services and therapies that Gottlieb Vision Group has provided for Maria.  Her cognitive function has improved dramatically since she started coming here in 1998.  Maria was lost when she came here, she could not see and her thinking was not at all there.  Maria now is cracking jokes, she is thinking a lot more than she did, her memory has improved dramatically and she recalls things from the past.  When she first started she was just sitting there; she was lost and Marianne working with Maria closely twice a week when she first started doing her therapies incorporated a lot of cognitive therapies along with her vision therapies and we feel that made a big, big impact on Maria’s life and the outcome of therapies.  Maria has been doing different therapies at home (vision therapies that were prescribed to her), she’s been using different low vision aids and one of them is the Eyelights that Maria started using when she started doing her syntonics photo treatment.  She has gained more use of the Eyelights over these past few weeks, she is now up to doing twenty minutes per session that she puts those Eyelights on and she does that several time a day.  She is able to set her own timer, she is able to turn on her own highlights, and she turns them back off, one thing that Maria wasn’t able to do when she first received that system.  She is doing that on her own now without being reminded which means a lot to us.  Basically that is telling you that her thinking ability has gotten very, very good compared to the way it used to be.  Her vision is very, very improved compared to when she first came here.  Maria uses a computer at home a lot; she does e-mails over the Internet with her sisters out in California, with family out in Texas, and family around town here in Atlanta.  She also keeps in contact with Marianne Johnson over the computer and we feel that if Maria would have not started therapy here things might have not been so good as they are now.  A doctor before Dr. Gottlieb had seen her but he did not want to give her any glasses.  He did not want to prescribe therapy for her until she had been eighteen months after her accident.  We feel that could have been a significant waste of time.  Kelvin Moore on the other hand brought Maria over here to Dr. Gottlieb’s office from Shepherd’s Center and within a week Dr. Gottlieb had Maria in glasses and he had her in therapy.  That made a big impact on our life.  We want to thank you guys for this.  The staff at Gottlieb Vision Group has been great to us, we feel like family here and we look forward to coming back to Atlanta to visit and we plan to come and visit ya’ll here.  I hope that we will be able to come back soon and stay in touch with ya’ll.  Thank you very much.”

 “My name is Maria and I started coming here in 1998 and ever since then it’s been great.  Before that one time we went to the movies and I could not see across the screen.  I was having trouble with everything.  We were having problems looking for a doctor and then Kelvin, the therapist from Shepherd told us about this place.  We came and thanks to Dr. Gottlieb and the staff I’ve been doing a lot better now and my vision has been improving.  I love my therapist.  Since I’ve been having my vision therapy I feel like my vision has gotten better.  Thank you.”

Maria G.

 “This is Ray again.  Maria was saying when she first started to speak, and that was something that I had left out, I didn’t remember about it until she brought it up, but one time before we started coming here to Gottlieb Vision Group we went to the movies, and as big as the screen is at the cinema I turn and looked at Maria in her wheel chair and I noticed that she was kind of like in a daze, she was lost, and I asked her what was the problem, if she was not enjoying the movie or if she just didn’t like it at all.  She turned around and said to me that she could not see the screen.  As big as the screen is at a cinema, she couldn’t see it, and that prompted us to seek some help and that’s how we got in touch with Kelvin Moore at Shepard’s Center and he brought us here to Gottlieb Vision Group.  We really want to thank the whole staff here at Gottlieb Vision Group, you’ve all treated us like family, you’ve all made use feel at home when we’d come here, and we really appreciate that.  Hopefully we can come back soon and visit ya’ll.  Thank you.”