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When a child is having problems with reading, an important first step should be tutoring and educational support to help coach reading development. This is a good place to start, but building visual function through office-based Vision Therapy including tutorial support is better yet.

Providing a child who is struggling in reading with Vision Therapy that targets better visual tracking, focusing, eye teaming and visual processing powers up reading speed and fluency for much better reading ability and comprehension.

Vision Therapy can be a game changer for the child who dislikes and avoids reading, has frequent letter reversals, has poor comprehension and loses their place easily while reading.

If your child is having reading and/or learning difficulties, a comprehensive vision and learning evaluation with one of our expert developmental vision and rehabilitation doctors would be an important next step. It provides the parent with important information on their child’s vision development and how it affects reading.  Once all testing is completed, we will outline a Vision Therapy plan to provide the answers to what needs to be done and explain how that translates to improved reading performance. You can contact us with our online Contact Form or just give us a call.

And, if you are interested in seeing the latest clinical research that shows how Vision Therapy works for vision related reading problems, here is an example; Outcome Measures of In-Office Optometric Visual Rehabilitation Intervention on Oculomotor Function, Visual Processing Skills, and Reading Efficiency Scores in Children with Formally Identified Academic Difficulties

Dan L. Fortenbacher, O.D., FOVDR