Symtoms that may indicate the need for Vision Therapy

• Fatigue with reading
• Comprehension drops after a time
• Short attention span
• Difficulty keeping place when reading
• Finger following when reading
• Slow word by word reading
• Reversals of letters of words
• Skips, rereads or omits words or lines
• Poor handwriting, tight pencil grip
• Reading part of word, guessing the rest
• Head tilt when reading
• Covers one eye when reading
• Poor co-ordination
• Tension or irritability with close work
• Vision blurry of doubles
• Words move about
• Eye strain with computer work
• Headaches or dizziness on car journeys
• Eyes turned in or out
• Lazy eye
• Poor concentration - unable to sit still

Vision is not simply the ability to see the letters at the bottom of the eye - test chart. Vision is the ability to use our eyes properly, efficiently and to derive meaning from the result of these actions.

Of all our senses vision is the most important to the learning process. Over 85% of all we ever learn is thought to originate via sight. Nevertheless, the least investigated and most overlooked sense when a child demonstrates learning difficulties is often the same - vision.

Vision is not just the ability to focus clearly on an object. Vision is the total ability to see and comprehend objects and image in space.

A significant number of learning difficulties are vision based.