Dr. Robert H. Duckman O.D.
Optometrist (Pediatric) | Pediatrics
33 West 42nd Street University Optometri New York NY, 10036About
Robert Duckman is a pediatric optometrist practicing in New York, NY. Robert specializes in providing eye care services to children. As an optometrist, Robert performs eye evaluations, tests vision, corrects vision by prescribing eye glasses or contacts, detects certain eye disorders and manages and treats vision problems. Robert is specifically trained to examine and treat visual disorders in children. Pediatric optometrists will typically prescribe children glasses until age 12, and around 12 years of age children can be prescribed contact lenses.
Education and Training
New England College of Optometry OD 1969
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Ocular dominance and amblyopia.
- Vision status among foster children in NYC: a research note.
- Screening infant vision with paraxial photorefraction.
- Management of binocular anomalies: efficacy of vision therapy, exotropia.
- Use of photoretinoscopy as a screening technique in the assessment of anisometropia and significant refractive error in infants/toddlers/children and special populations.
- Vision therapy for the child with cerebral palsy.
- Some observations concerning saccadic eye movements.
- Use of forced preferential looking for measurement of visual acuity in a population of neurologically impaired children.
- Accommodation in cerebral palsy: function and remediation.
- Effectiveness of visual training on a population of cerebral palsied children.
- Orthoptic treatment of strabismus.
- Accommodative adaptation in children.
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