Vision & 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 routine eye test has determined that there is not 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 fundamental visual tasks and therefore the correct management of vision must be the first area that should be looked at when there are learning problems.