Vision and Learning

Children who are under achieving at school, and often diagnosed as dyslexic
or dyspraxic, frequently have a hidden vision problem that prevent them from
reaching their true academic potential in the classroom.  Many will have had a
routine eye test which mainly tests for distance vision clarity and does not look
in any detail or understanding at the visual processes taking place in the child
patient with learning difficulties or, indeed, in the adult with eye strain in the office
or one who still does not enjoy reading or sports.  Once a standard eye test has
determined that the child does not have a sight problem, vision is ruled out as a
contributing factor in the learning difficulties and an opportunity is missed to give
vital help to the child.

Reading, writing and spelling are all fundamentally visual tasks and
therefore the correct management of vision must be the first area that
should be looked at when there are learning problems.