Does your child struggle with reading comprehension? According with the American Academy of Optometry, recent studies have provided new insights into disorders of eye focusing and eye teaming that reinforce the need for comprehensive eye examinations and follow-up care for students who are struggling in school. These disorders may occur even when individuals have 20/20 eyesight, and can impact students when reading and studying. The typical student with such disorders, which affect 5-10% of school-aged children, may experience fatigue, loss of place when reading, and difficulty completing assignments. Other common symptoms include skipping small words, rereading sentences, inserting words that do not exist in the text, and experiencing decreasing comprehension the longer that a child reads. Teachers and parents are often at a loss to explain the source of a student’s problems. The difficulties that they observe may not fit exclusively into the currently accepted categories of problems that adversely impact a student’s school performance such as a specific learning disability, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or language-based. Timely identification and treatment of eye focusing and teaming problems can remove a potential obstacle that may restrict a child from performing at his or her full potential.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:35:18 +0000
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