Sonja Gaulke graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1990. She has worked in a rural private practice, The Australian College of Optometry (Tutor and Clinician), and with a Retinal Ophthalmologist, before beginning Berwick Family Eyecare in 2000. Sonja’s interests are Childrens Vision and Learning, Diseases of the Eye, Ocular Trauma/Infection, and mild Traumatic Brain Injury (concussion). She is an active member of the College of Behavioural Optometrists.
• Needs to touch things to understand them
• Doesn’t recognise the same word when rewritten
• Understands spoken word, but trouble with writing or reading
• Poor comprehension and attention span
• Complains of words moving, or colours/spots on page
• Car or motion sickness
• Omits small/short length words
• Slow to complete work
• Clumsy
• Word guessing
• Reversing letters/numbers
• Rubbing eyes and blinking often
• Fidgeting and can't sit still
• Continued disruptive behaviour
• Trouble copying from board
• Complains of blurring
• Poor posture when doing near work
• Writing uphill or downhill and Irregular letter or word spacing
• Rereads lines/loses place
• Headaches after reading or near work
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