Reply #8: Thanks. As usual, DUers come thru with info!

[CTyankee]

My dtr kept asking the first MD about treatment and the doc kept blowing her off, practically showing her impatience.

He's very bright and does well in school. Interestingly, he is in an immersion program in Italian (it isn't spoken at home) in school and he is reading, writing and speaking in two languages now. I suspected that he was doing well in another language because his visual impairment has augmented his aural sense.

The second doctor heard him singing to himself in Italian and looked at his handwriting sample (taken from his homework) and asked my daughter if he often "babbled and wrote gibberish." OK, the doc is from Japan but still she couldn't understand the word "bambino" (which was on his homework)? My daughter informed her that he is bi-lingual....