Although many of us take it for granted, reading is actually a complex skill. The easy part is eyesight. Can you see the words on the page? Often, glasses can correct this deficiency. But as Dr. Rick Graebe, a behavioral optometrist in Versailles, points out, many schoolchildren who have 20-20 eyesight still struggle to read. […]
Does Dr. Graebe, a behavioral optometrist in Versailles, claim to cure dyslexia, ADD or other learning differences? No. He recognizes that these are legitimate diagnoses that identify a cluster of behaviors. But he also says these terms are overused and result in the mislabeling of people, especially schoolchildren who struggle in the classroom. What Dr. […]
For Vision Therapist Grace Casciola, her path to Dr. Rick Graebe’s office in Versailles started on a soccer field in Louisville. Playing for Berea College, Casciola executed a perfect sliding tackle, but the collision with her opponent resulted in injuries to her head and one eye. While her opponent was taken from the field, Casciola […]
Michelle Jones, a Frankfort mother of a second grader, calls it divine intervention. And she needed something heaven-sent to help her son, Cason New, now 8. Always a little behind at school, Cason struggled even more when he entered second grade last fall at Elkhorn Elementary. He was reading at a first grade level and […]
Dr. Rick Graebe, a behavioral optometrist in Versailles, is nothing if not dedicated to lifelong learning. Over the more than three decades of his career, he has relentlessly pursued best practices for his patients, even if those practices sometimes challenged conventional wisdom. Take one of Dr. Graebe’s specialties – Vision Therapy, which is a kind […]
How did Daphne Moore become a Vision Therapist at Dr. Rick Graebe’s optometry office in Versailles? Mostly by accident. A 2014 graduate with a psychology degree from St. Catharine College, now closed, Moore was searching online for school counselor jobs when another position – Vision Therapist – caught her eye, so to speak. After a […]
Struggling with reading is a common indicator that your child may need an eye exam. But what if the results of that eye exam are normal? Could the issue still be vision-related? Absolutely. Standard eye exams don’t test the visual system in total, something that Dr. Rick Graebe, a behavioral optometrist, does routinely at his […]
Elizabeth Tincher’s journey to Dr. Graebe’s office in Versailles, where she is in her first year as a Vision Therapist, started with a horrific car accident nearly 25 years ago. Elizabeth was 19 and a student at UK in 1994 when she was nearly killed in the accident that left her with a ripped aorta […]
Nothing would distress behavioral optometrist Rick Graebe of Versailles more than for his practice to start a waiting list. A specialist in Vision Therapy, which is a kind of physical therapy for the eyes, brain and body, Dr. Graebe burns with a passion to help patients. The idea that people who need his services couldn’t […]
When a colleague insisted that Literacy Coach Angela Baker of Berea Independent Schools attend an information session on Vision Therapy last spring, she had no idea it would spark a plan that would benefit her entire school district. Baker heard that a few students who had been patients of Dr. Rick Graebe, a behavioral optometrist […]
