Dr. Frank Belgau: The learning Breakthrough program that you have -- the program was put together like I've put these things together, and then there was Dr. Ralph Schrock who was a Developmental Optometrist in La Jolla, California. Dr. Schrock worked with navy pilots, he worked with kids with learning problems, he had a group of the scientists La Jolla is a kind of a hot bed of scientific research and they have a lot of research science centers and foundations in the San Diego area. Anyway Dr. Schrock had a - as a group they were working on visual enhancement or Braille enhancement activities in order to be able to do their work more efficiently. So, he was known around the world as kind of the number one guy for therapy to straighten cross-eyed kid's eyes. Dr. Schrock used my stuff; he found that he was able to cut his training time more than in half. He is that much more efficient by using the balance board in those activities. We are very close friends and he came up to visit me, and when he came to visit me he came in -- I had him read to do the things and actually after the 15 minutes his reading was much worse. He was quite a young man and I was really, really disappointed because here I had this marvelous guy in my hands and my stuff didn't work and I didn't impress him well. He went on and worked for almost an hour and a half, and then his reading was much, much better, he had a whole lot better visual acuity, it was a really, really intriguing moment to see how he persisted in this and worked at it. Hence what happened is, he saw there was a difference in reading after he had done those things all right. So, he used my things, and then we sat down one day, we wanted to put together a package of equipment that would be the most value for the least amount of money. What happens is I could put together a package of a balance board and bean bags and have something I could sell and have a good piece.
But in my heart, I couldn't do it if I had leave out more than what I want to leave out, okay? So, we went through and worked very hard. Now the Super Bowl toss back about that time Peter Brancazio of Brooklyn College had doubt that of how an outfielder catches a fly ball. Does anybody know how an outfielder catches a fly ball? What actually happens is that he lost his eyes in the center and tracks it with his necks and inner ear. And Dr. Schrock felt like that was a very, very important dimension of vision. So that's why the Super Ball toss back in the kit - we have debated that because you have to make that our good word who has that of mass and will bounce ball back to you. So it add to the cost of the piece, and so that we did, what we did is we tried to put the most value for the least amount of money and have the most of a piece and so that the kit gives you the material that you can sit, can work with and give you pretty good piece.
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