Arthur Marten Skeffington (1890 - 1976) was an American optometrist known to some as "the father of behavioral optometry".[1][2] Skeffington has been credited as co-founding the Optometric Extension Program with E.B. Alexander in 1928.[2] In the mid-1950s, Skeffington first diagrammed his "four circles" model of describing visual processing.[3]
Honors
editThe College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) awards the yearly Skeffington Award in his honor, to be awarded to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to optometric literature in the areas of vision therapy and vision development.[4]
Furthermore, there is a yearly Kraskin Invitational Skeffington Symposium on Vision.[5]
References
edit- ^ http://www.kingkong.demon.co.uk/ngcoba/sk.htm [Note: Confirms dates of birth and death - "Arthur Marten SKEFFINGTON (M: 1890 - 1976)".
- ^ a b "A.M. Skeffington, O.D.: The Father of Behavioral Optometry." Archived October 17, 2006, at the Wayback Machine Visionaries (Reprinted from January–December 1991 Issues of Review of Optometry). Retrieved September 19, 2006.
- ^ Merrill D. Bouwan (August 8, 1999). "Integrating Vision with Other Senses". Neurodevelopmental Optometry. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
- ^ The Skeffington Award, COVD Blog. November 4, 2010. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
- ^ Kraskin Invitational Skeffington Symposium on Vision
Further reading
edit- Willis C. Maples (October 1998). Pluta, Maksymilian; Szyjer, Mariusz (eds.). "A.M. Skeffington: the father of behavioral optometry—his contributions". Ophthalmic Measurements and Optometry. 3579 (17). Proc. SPIE: 17. Bibcode:1998SPIE.3579...17M. doi:10.1117/12.328320. S2CID 144296222. (abstract)
- Sensorimotor Dynamics and Two Visual Systems: Shades of Skeffington & Brock Part 1, The visionhelp blog, 22 May 2011
- Earl P. Schmitt: The Skeffington Perspective of the Behavioral Model of Optometric Data Analysis and Vision Care, AuthorHouse, 2006, ISBN 1-4259-1054-8
External links
edit- The Science of Behavioral Optometry
- "The Arts of Early Kearney". 8 (9). Buffalo County Historical Society. October 1985. Archived from the original on 2006-10-08.
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