Studies have shown that at least 13% of children between the ages of nine-thirteen suffer from moderate to severe convergence insufficiency, the ability to bring one’s eyes together, which is crucial for good reading. Left untreated, vision problems will hinder your child’s learning in school. Vision problems, in extreme cases, ignored or misdiagnosed, can become the true root cause of a child becoming the victim or aggressor in a school bullying tragedy. A child with an untreated vision problem may be misdiagnosed with behavior problems or ADHD/ADD when in reality they have a vision problem. Undetected learning-related vision problems in children are common. Deficiencies in any of these can be detrimental to a child’s learning ability and/or school performance. Is the quality of your child’s eye-hand coordination balanced? Visual-motor integration is important not only for legible handwriting and the ability to efficiently copy written information from a book or board but also for sports. Questions Related to Eyesight and Learning Eye movement skills:ĭo your child’s eyes move across the page in a book smoothly and accurately? Eye focusing abilities:ĭoes your child change focus from near to far and back again – between reading text from a far-away white or black-board and writing on paper? Eye teaming skills:Īre your child’s eyes working together as a focus unit – do they come together for proper eye alignment for reading? Binocular vision skills:Īre your child’s eyes blending visual images from both eyes into a single, three-dimensional image? Visual perceptual skills:ĭoes your child identify and understand what s/he sees, co-relating importance, connecting with previous visual memorized information? Visual-motor integration: You may already be aware that a nearsighted child has little trouble reading or that good grades in school can be acquired even if much of the teacher’s board cannot be seen by the student.
A child’s visual acuity (how well s/he can see the wall chart) is an essential aspect of good vision but there are other factors which may prove more important. These eye conditions can cause learning problems and substandard educational results.
There’s More To Children’s Learning Than Just 20/20 VisionĮven if your child doesn’t need corrective lenses, he or she may be experiencing vision problems.
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