Vision and learning

1 in 4 children struggle with reading because of undiagnosed vision problems.
They lack adequate visual skills needed for close up work during reading, writing, and computer tasks. Often, we attribute children’s symptoms to problems such as ADHD or learning disabilities, when the source of their problems in the classroom is undiagnosed visual problems.

80% of learning takes place through vision.
The whole brain is involved with vision and integrated with all other senses. Two thirds of our brain pathways is taken up by vision. A few of the visual skills that can impact learning includes eye tracking, focusing, eye teaming, depth perception, eye-hand-body coordination, visual memory, and visual form perception.

60% of students identified as learning disabled have undetected visual problems.
Your child can only learn properly if he can move his eyes along the lines of a book efficiently, switch from far to near vision quickly and accurately, sustain clarity on targets at different distances such as copying from the board, team the eyes to see single when reading with minimal effort, integrate what they see and what they write, visually discriminate objects, and successfully perform some other visual tasks. If your child cannot do these visual tasks efficiently, a bright child can easily be mislabeled learning disabled.

> 1,000,000 children (ages 0-10) suffer from vision problems that may cause them to fail in school.
Take your child to a behavioral/developmental optometrist to get your child evaluated. Eye doctors who specialize in children’s vision go on to receive their professional credentialing through the College of Optometrists in Vision Development, becoming board-certified Fellows (FCOVD).