In episode 14, we hear from Dr. Ruth Shoge, from Pennsylvania College of Optometry, about the vision disorders and visual challenges brain injury survivors can encounter. She describes the benefits of vision therapy and offers vision exercises that we can practice from home.

Dr. Ruth Shoge received her optometry degree from and completed her pediatric residency training at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry (PCO).  She is the lead instructor of the Health Care, Professionalism, and Diversity course and is an instructor in the Binocular Vision I and Acquired Brain Injury courses for the 3-year and 4-year optometry programs.  She is also the lead instructor for the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Behavioral Optometry Advanced Studies domestic and international programs. Dr. Shoge received her Master’s of Public Health from Temple University with a concentration in Social and Behavioral Science. As a clinical educator, her specialties include pediatric care, binocular vision disorders, vision disorders related to TBI, and vision therapy.  In the clinical setting, Dr. Shoge aims to provide and model clinical competence and cultural humility to her students as they care for their patients.  She serves as an investigator in several federally funded research studies which investigate pediatric and adult visual conditions such as amblyopia, strabismus, myopia, and concussion-related vision disorders.