Dr. Mitchell Scheiman

Dr. Mitchell Scheiman is a nationally known optometric educator, lecturer, author and private practitioner. He is the author of Understanding and Managing Visual Deficits: A Guide for Occupational Therapists and Low Vision Rehabilitation: A Guide for Occupational Therapists published by Taylor & Francis Group. Dr. Scheiman has a long and close relationship with occupational and physical therapists. He has worked closely with occupational and physical therapists in his practice co-managing patients and has lectured to therapists on numerous occasions.

He has specialized in vision therapy for the past 49 years. Dr. Scheiman is currently Senior Associate Dean of Research at the Pennsylvania College of Optometry at Drexel University and a Professor at Drexel University.. He has written three books for optometrists covering the topics of binocular vision and vision therapy, pediatric optometry, and learning related vision problems and he has published over 240 articles in the professional literature. He is a Diplomate in Binocular Vision and Perception and a Fellow in the College of Optometrists in Vision Development.