For success in school, children must be able to coordinate their eye movements as a team. They must be able to follow a line of print without losing their place. They must be able to maintain clear focus as they read or make quick focusing changes when looking up to the board and back to their desks. And they must be able to interpret and accurately process what they are seeing.
Unfortunately, about 20% of school-aged children struggle to read. Some of these children suffer from learning disabilities or dyslexia, the inability of the brain’s verbal language to accurately decode the connection between the word’s written symbol. However, a large portion of children struggling to read are not dyslexic at all; their processing skills are fine. It’s their vision that is interfering with their ability to read.
If children have inadequate visual skills in any of these areas, they can experience great difficulty in school, especially in reading. Children who lack good basic visual skills often struggle in school unnecessarily. Their “hidden” vision problem is keeping them from performing at grade level. Convergence insufficiency can cause difficulty with reading, which may make parents or teachers suspect that the child has a learning disability, instead of an eye disorder (oculomotor muscles).
How to detect an oculomotor asymmetry in your child
1- Extend your arm and look at your index finger.
2-Then, slowly bring it forward for your eyes to focus inward ( what we sometimes call cross-eyed).
3-You should be able to maintain focus to the root of your nose with both eyes.
If you see two fingers, it means that you are not able to stay focused on that same point. One of the eyeballs might be weak and moving out.
This can be a dysfunction of an eye “muscle”.
It is essential that a systematic screening program should be set up in schools and that training for GPs and pediatricians should be reinforced. As for ophthalmologists, they should make themselves familiar with these concepts so as to collaborate more closely with posturologists.
If you want to improve you child’s focus or brain function; have them do eye exercises!
For more information please contact us at 877.315.8489
or at education (at) posturepro (dot) net
The Posturepro Team
Changing Lives
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