If your child exhibits these behaviors, he or she may have a visual-perceptual problem that impacts learning. The list comes from the recent article titled Visual Impediments to Learning published in the journal Optometry & Visual Performance.
The child/student:
• Exhibits poor motor coordination
• Uncoordinated–frequent tripping, stumbling, bumping into
things, having trouble skipping and jumping
• Communicates infrequently with gestures or through
physical “acting”
• Does not enjoy books or pictures, perhaps does not enjoy
video games
• Demonstrates restlessness, short attention span,
perseveration
• Plays games poorly; cannot imitate children in games
• Exhibits poor handwriting, artwork, drawing
• Exhibits reversals of the letters b, d, p, q, u, n when writing
[beyond age 7]
• Inverts numbers or reverses numbers
• Requires auditory cues
• Gives correct answers when teacher reads test but cannot
put answer on paper
• Fails to understand what is read
• Exhibits poor performance on group achievement tests
• Appears brighter than test scores indicate
• Has poor perception of time and space
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The child/student:
• Exhibits poor motor coordination
• Uncoordinated–frequent tripping, stumbling, bumping into
things, having trouble skipping and jumping
• Communicates infrequently with gestures or through
physical “acting”
• Does not enjoy books or pictures, perhaps does not enjoy
video games
• Demonstrates restlessness, short attention span,
perseveration
• Plays games poorly; cannot imitate children in games
• Exhibits poor handwriting, artwork, drawing
• Exhibits reversals of the letters b, d, p, q, u, n when writing
[beyond age 7]
• Inverts numbers or reverses numbers
• Requires auditory cues
• Gives correct answers when teacher reads test but cannot
put answer on paper
• Fails to understand what is read
• Exhibits poor performance on group achievement tests
• Appears brighter than test scores indicate
• Has poor perception of time and space
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Friday, July 5, 2013
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
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Sunday, June 9, 2013
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Apr 17, 2013
60% of learning disabled students failed two or more binocular vision tests
Oct 20, 2012
More visual symptoms means lower academic performance
Feb 29, 2012
Vision therapy for convergence insufficiency improves academic performance ...
Jan 16, 2012
82% of teachers report an improvement in students after vision therapy
Jun 16, 2012
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Mar 31, 2012
Study proves that vision problems interfere with learning
More visual symptoms means lower academic performance
Feb 29, 2012
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Jan 16, 2012
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