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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vision therapy can be very useful for certain vision problems. There are some claims that some children who have been diagnosed with ADHD actually have vision problems and once those problems are remediated, the appearance of ADHD goes away, but I am unaware of any studies backing up those claims. There are also claims that some children with dyslexia really just need vision therapy to sort them out. It's unfortunate because it makes vision therapy seem very "woo" when there are actually some problems it can legitimately address.[/quote]

Hmmmm. This makes a certain amount of sense. My DC doesn't wear glasses and no indication of vision problems. Could I be missing something? Do these "vision" docs go a little deeper? [/quote]

You could be missing something, but if your child has no indication of vision problems I'd think things were fine. My child (with convergence problems - one of the issues that is successfully addressed by vision therapy) complained of the letters/words on the pages of her books jumping around. She was assessed and her eyes didn't track properly, so as she got tired her eyes would sort of wander and that would cause the jumping. Vision therapy was essentially intensive training for her brain and the muscles of her eyes to teach them to track together. In addition to fixing her convergence problem, her behavior improved at school because she was better able to access the information in the manner it was being presented (text), and her academic performance improved likewise. Her symptoms - poor handwriting, terrible spelling, struggling reading - were similar to symptoms of dyslexia. This is why careful evaluation is important. I suspect it's also why you get people suggesting vision therapy for ADHD and dyslexia, because there are some overlap of symptoms that different problems cause.[/quote]

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