Eye Chart Screenings May Be Inadequate and Cause Low Reading Scores
A Today Show appearance by the deputy director of Prevention Magazine, touched upon the real reasons kids and adults struggle to read and answers the questions I have been asking in my books and seminars for years:
Is the typical eye chart screening adequate to pick up factors that are certain to cause reading problems? The answer is no, by both the American Optometric Society and even the Center for Disease Control. Reading is at the core of the learning process, and if you want you or your child to be a better reader, continue reading this article:
Eye chart screenings are not related to reading at near point.
They simply tell you whether you can see
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Eyesight and vision are not the same.
Eyesight is the acutity and health of the eye, and vision is the ability to make meaning from what you read and see.
A typical eye exam is not the same as a comprehensive exam.
While a regular eye exam will pick up big problems, the comprehensive eye exam measures things like tracking (essential to reading without losing your place, and tracking a ball in sports),
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When your child is first born, their eyes tend to work separately and may wander slightly outward. If, over time, that doesn’t naturally correct, you’ll find your child complaining of headaches, covering one eye to read, not really wanting to read, or getting tired quickly when reading. Your child may also need to sit right and the front of the classroom to see better.
The action: get a comprehensive vision exam now, and below, there are serveral resources below where you can use to find the doctors who perform those exams.
Jean Ramsey, M.D., director of pediatric opthmology service at Boston Medical Center, says,”By the time you’re an adult your
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While the American Optometric Society estimates that 1 in 4 children can’t see properly,
(notice too that almost 70% of our4th and 8th graders are not reading at grade level) the CDC found that that 60% of children under 6 have never had their eyes checked.
They also found that of school-age children only 20% have had their vision tested by an eyedoctor in the past year.
OK - here’s the info you need that is so critical to your child’s reading success:
Get your child’s eyes checked during infancy (there’s a
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Make sure that T.V. and computer use is limited, since too much of that, all by itself, may arrest some visual skill development. Get your child outside to play all kinds of games, ride bikes and definitely add sports to the mix.
Resources:
Comprehensive Vision Exams: [http://www.covd.org/ ]http://www.covd.org [http://www.oep.org/ ]http://www.oep.org For infants - [http://www.infantsee.org/ ]http://www.infantsee.org [http://www.infantsee.org/ ]Be sure and listen to former President Jimmy Carter on the infantsee website.
For more information on why even a former President’sdaughter struggled with unnecessary vision problemsthat
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For informative chapters on how to detect and solve your child’s reading problems, as well asmore information on practical learning strategies take a look at the best selling book, Learning vs Testing at [http://www.howtolearn.com/learningvstesting2.html ] [www.howtolearn.com/learningvstesting2.html ] [http://www.howtolearn.com/learningvstesting2.html ]http://www.howtolearn.com/learningvstesting2.html Your child’s eyes and vision are far too important to take forgranted. You have no idea how the world looks through their eyes and if you want reading and learning to be faster and easier, now is the time to act. Don’t rely on the eye chart in the typical school vision screening.
Pat Wyman is a the best selling author of Learning vs
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She has appeared on more than 300 radio and T.V. programs, had her work featured in such publications as Family Circle, Woman’s World and Nickelodeon’s Nick Jr. Family Magazine, and regularly conducts coaching seminars on faster learning. She e-mails her Instant Learning newsletters to over 250,000 subscribers each week.
Thank you for duplicating my copyrighted article on vision screenings on your body fitness site.
In observance of U.S. copyright laws, would you please add the copyright symbol, with my name, Pat Wyman, and place
All Rights Reserved Worldwide at the beginning of this article. While you list my name at the end, there is no indication in your sidebars or article that I am its author.
At this point, you have simply taken the article with no attribution and it may not be reprinted in that format.
Thank you for fixing this.
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Pat Wyman