Literacy Coach's Corner
Eye Exercises to Enhance Children’s Visual Processing Skills
How Visual Eye Processing Skills Can Help
Visual processing skills like tracking, eye teaming, and visual perception are developmental skills that all children need in addition to seeing clearly. If these skills don’t develop normally, children can struggle with demanding visual tasks like reading. Each year as print gets smaller, school performance drops, and as visual fatigue sits in, children become easily frustrated and distracted. All too often, these children appear to have a learning disability or attention problems when the real culprit is poor visual processing skills. Glasses can’t help, but eye exercises can!
Teaming
Controlling how we use and aim our eyes together is an importing skill.
Learn more here: http://eyecanlearn.com/teaming/
Perception
Vision Perception is the ability to interpret, analyze, and give meaning to what we see.
Learn more here: http://eyecanlearn.com/perception/
Tracking: Fixation
Inadequate fixation skills must be addressed early in a treatment program before other oculomotor techniques are attempted because it is the foundation skill upon which others build.
Learn more here: http://eyecanlearn.com/tracking/fixation/
Symptoms Assessment
How are parents to know if their children’s attention and/or school struggles are related to poor vision skills?
Jessica Warner
Email: jwarner@somervilleschools.org
Location: 51 Union Avenue, Somerville, NJ, USA
Phone: (908)218-4105
Twitter: @VDVReading