It is not hard to spot if a child is having difficulty in this area. Here are some examples of how the text might appear: This difficulty with movement and fixation can actually cause visual distortions or cause the text to move around. As a result the child may look distracted by looking around a lot, when in fact the child is incapable of holding their eyes on a fixed point. Try to follow along with the words and see if you can understand what it is saying.Įye-tracking issues can also include difficulty focusing on one spot (like fixating on one word on the page. Here is an example of the type of eye movements eye-tracking issues would create. Eye-tracking issues exist when one or both eyes have difficulty moving smoothly and accurately in this side-to-side motion. It is probably the most delicate and complicated muscle movement your body makes. The left/right movement of your eyes when reading is called a saccade movement. Learning all of this we took James to a behavioral optometrist and he was recently diagnosed with severe eye-tracking difficulties. Pediatric ophthalmologists and regular optometrists do not check for eye-movement disorders so they are often missed in this exams. Also, the best person to discover these visual issues would be a behavioral optometrist. What I did not realize was that these visual issues often go unnoticed until the child enters the higher grades where they use their eyes more for close-up work. I didn’t think it was a visual processing issue because I had him evaluated by a pediatric ophthalmologist who said all was well and his eyes were not the problem. But even though he could read the words, his fluency was 2 years behind what it should have been. He couldn’t read at all until I found the Easyread System which got him caught up to reading a year above grade level. This was the case with my 10-year-old son James. But for many children all the effort in the world brings them some success, but they never read with ease. After all, if they tried harder, or if we cater to their optimum learning style, chances are good the information will click and they will be on their way to reading success. When a child struggles with reading we often look to their effort or the teaching method as the source of the problem.
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