| Dyslexia and vision therapy are very often | | | | tracking, dyslexia and vision therapy apparently do |
| coupled together, whilst some experts would | | | | coincide. |
| oppose with this. The genuine diagnosis of dyslexia | | | | Other areas in vision training that are similar to |
| depends on a range of things, making an actual | | | | tracking exercises can help parts of remedial |
| definition very difficult to make. Because of this | | | | reading. Children with learning disabilities can carry |
| lack of an unanimously agreed remedial definition, | | | | out eye coordination and focus therapies to help |
| dyslexia as a learning disability is subsequently | | | | continue focus on a book. Visualization therapy |
| over-diagnosed in a lot of cases. | | | | can likewise support them in their spelling and |
| Being an Optometrist, I most often assist children | | | | recall, and reversal therapy stops the child writing |
| with learning disabilities, correlating dyslexia with | | | | letters in reverse. All of these components |
| vision training everyday, and have been doing so | | | | demonstrate that dyslexia and vision therapy are |
| for over 20 years. However with vision training or | | | | closely connected and can be easily associated. |
| therapy, remedial definitions such as focus and | | | | Since there is no universally agreed upon remedial |
| eye coordination disorders, tracking and | | | | definition for dyslexia, parents are free to look at |
| sequencing are most often agreed upon within the | | | | the connection between dyslexia and vision |
| industry. Diagnosing dyslexia is much more of a | | | | therapy. In fact, I have used vision training in my |
| complex task, as there are none of these | | | | office to care for children with diagnosed brain |
| components to help draw attention to the issue. | | | | disorders and have had success. Did it cure the |
| Children who suffer from dyslexia can discover | | | | brain disorder? No, or course not! But what it did |
| help in vision training in a assortment of ways. | | | | do it train visual skills which the child, even though |
| Vision therapy tracking can help to improve eye | | | | they have a brain issue, was able to use to |
| movements, enabling the patient's vision to | | | | considerably improve their learning ability. |
| become stable which allows them to retain their | | | | Every possible opportunity for a child with learning |
| place in a book when they read. Even as there | | | | disabilities must be openly discussed with the |
| have been numerous disputes as to whether or | | | | parents, even if the treatment seems odd or |
| not dyslexia and vision therapy can be associated, | | | | new. Failure to do so is very unprofessional, yet |
| thousands of children across the world engaging in | | | | doctors across the world overlook treatment like |
| tracking exercises have discovered it to be of | | | | vision training when it could help many of their |
| terrific value. Vision therapy tracking exercises will | | | | patients. Whether or not parents need to start on |
| improve and challenge the visual skills in a child, | | | | vision tracking exercises, or engage in programs |
| helping their reading and stabilizing their space | | | | such as ours, the association between dyslexia |
| world, overcoming some of the symptoms of | | | | and vision therapy needs to be discussed |
| dyslexia. And in vision therapy disciplines such as | | | | positively and considered by all concerned. |