Is your child skipping words or rereading lines when reading?
This is a common symptom for our children who come into our office, and it may indicate a vision disorder, even if the child has good eyesight. Many educational models of reading do not include poor eye movement as a possibility for reading difficulty, as it is commonly assumed that a the child can "move the eyes" so he doesn't have a problem.
Parents and educators often blame carelessness when they notice the child skipping words or lines. Initially, they encourage the child to try harder and to stay focus and mistakenly believe the child is simply distracted, or lack of interest, or laziness. However, when the child starts to get frustrated or impatient over time as a result of consistent struggles to read or write, a further assessment with a developmental optometrist will be helpful as children with eye tracking problems (oculomotor dysfunction) may actually be experiencing difficulty with eye muscle coordination.
A child with an eye tracking problem strains to accurately and efficiently control eye movements, resulting in their eyes to jump erratically, rather than move along a line of text smoothly. These irregular eye movement are subtle enough and easily detected by gross observation from an educator or parent. However, even slight eye movement deviations can make it challenging to read and write without skipping text.
Without the eye muscles functioning in a normal accurate way, you may observe your child losing their place while reading or copying from the board, rereading words or lines, or using a finger, pencil or some other tool in an attempt to maintain his place while reading or writing.
If your child is struggling with eye tracking, reading is challenging and comprehension will be strenous, especially as the paragraphs and reading or assignments grow longer.
If oculomotor dysfunction causes a child to continues to skipping letters, words or lines by third or fourth grade, they will likely fall below expected grade level performance. Additional tutoring may not be helpful as a underlying fundamental skill has not been developed.
At Vision and Learning Developmental Practice, we provide the latest equipments and skills to assess a child's eye tracking matched with norms, visual perceptual skills, visual information processing skills, and more to fully understand their learning abilities.
Please fill this form and get a complimentary short consultation at our office.
This is a common symptom for our children who come into our office, and it may indicate a vision disorder, even if the child has good eyesight. Many educational models of reading do not include poor eye movement as a possibility for reading difficulty, as it is commonly assumed that a the child can "move the eyes" so he doesn't have a problem.
Parents and educators often blame carelessness when they notice the child skipping words or lines. Initially, they encourage the child to try harder and to stay focus and mistakenly believe the child is simply distracted, or lack of interest, or laziness. However, when the child starts to get frustrated or impatient over time as a result of consistent struggles to read or write, a further assessment with a developmental optometrist will be helpful as children with eye tracking problems (oculomotor dysfunction) may actually be experiencing difficulty with eye muscle coordination.
A child with an eye tracking problem strains to accurately and efficiently control eye movements, resulting in their eyes to jump erratically, rather than move along a line of text smoothly. These irregular eye movement are subtle enough and easily detected by gross observation from an educator or parent. However, even slight eye movement deviations can make it challenging to read and write without skipping text.
Without the eye muscles functioning in a normal accurate way, you may observe your child losing their place while reading or copying from the board, rereading words or lines, or using a finger, pencil or some other tool in an attempt to maintain his place while reading or writing.
If your child is struggling with eye tracking, reading is challenging and comprehension will be strenous, especially as the paragraphs and reading or assignments grow longer.
If oculomotor dysfunction causes a child to continues to skipping letters, words or lines by third or fourth grade, they will likely fall below expected grade level performance. Additional tutoring may not be helpful as a underlying fundamental skill has not been developed.
At Vision and Learning Developmental Practice, we provide the latest equipments and skills to assess a child's eye tracking matched with norms, visual perceptual skills, visual information processing skills, and more to fully understand their learning abilities.
Please fill this form and get a complimentary short consultation at our office.
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Observe how difficult it is for the child to maintain fixation and good smooth tracking.