Dr. Nadira Shadeed, OD, FCOVD featured by the Georgia Optometric Association
Dr. Tasman Continues His 50 In 50 With A Visit To Dr. Nadira Shadeed
Dr. Tasman continued his 50 in 50 with a visit to Dr. Nadira Shadeed, OD, FCOVD. Dr. Shadeed graduated from Southern College of Optometry and started the Pediatric Vision Development Center of Gwinnett in 2008. She decided to focus her practice on vision therapy but was not able to find an electronic health records software that met the needs of her vision therapy exclusive practice. That's when Dr. Shadeed and her husband, Joe Rouw, OD, FAAO, decided to make their own. They teamed up a software development and created a company called Nu Squared. Nu Squared has now developed their software called Nu Vision VT. www.nusquared.com 
Nu Vision VT is designed for offices that perform vision therapy and allows them to perform and record vision therapy sessions and vision therapy testing. They have even developed an iPad app that allows offices to record their results during vision therapy sessions on an iPad. This has allowed Dr. Shadeed to stay mobile during her vision therapy sessions while still going paperless.
Nu Squared debuted their Nu Vision VT Software last fall at the COVD meeting with great interest from doctors and therapists and saw an even greater interest at this year's COVD meeting in October.
17 Visual Skills
Most people don’t realize that you need 17 visual skills to succeed in reading, learning, sports, and in life.
Seeing ‘20/20’ is just one of those visual skills. Here is the complete list of
17 visual skills by the College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD).
Listen to early education specialist's support for comprehensive eye exams and vision therapy (video courtesy of COVD.org)
60% OF STUDENTS IDENTIFIED AS “PROBLEM LEARNERS" HAVE UNDETECTED VISION PROBLEMS
The Pediatric Vision Development Center of Gwinnett was founded with the mission to help children who suffer from learning-related vision problems that may affect their performance in school and other daily activites.
UNDERSTANDING VISION THERAPY WITH DR. NADIRA SHADEED
Dr. Shadeed is passionate about her profession and cares about her patients. She is a member of College of Optometrist in Vision Development and completed her fellowship certification (FCOVD) in vision therapy and vision development in order to have the highest levels of knowledge and skills for treating her patients. Dr. Shadeed has also completed a residency in pediatric optometry. Along with her professional skills, Dr. Shadeed excels at working with children and adults to help them understand each optometric vision therapy technique. She takes time to get to know each patient in order to get their best performance during every session.
80% OF ALL LEARNING DURING A CHILD'S FIRST 12 YEARS COMES THROUGH VISION
NOT ALL VISION THERAPY IS PERFORMED THE SAME
Dr. Shadeed performs in-depth testing for functional
and developmental visual skills to determine how well the child's eyes work together and to evaluate their visual processing skills. Dr. Shadeed works together with the child and the parents with
one-on-one in-office optometric vision therapy. This allows for the best environment for the understanding of each of the goals in developing the child's visual performance.
Before deciding where to start an Optometric Vision Therapy program, we welcome you to call the office and set up a time to come in and meet Dr. Shadeed and see what our office has to offer.
Our Focus Is Your Child's Vision