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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]vision specialist told me that parents like to think that vision therapy works because "Parents often spend time and money on things just to feel like they're doing something."[/quote]

teacher here (so not expertise in vision training) but seriously i think it's phooey. training your eyes impacts behavior? not buying it[/quote]

I can speak to vision therapy for Convergency/Tracking issues.  Our daughter was diagnosed this past fall after years of reading struggles (3-4 levels below grade level).  My husband was at the evaluation and saw for himself on the screen what we hadn't noticed, that her eyes were focusing on 2 different points and were not tracking together at all from 18 inches in. Her eyes jumped all over the page and it was an enormous effort to read a string of words together in a sentence.  It made reading and decoding words a huge struggle for her despite a great deal of tutoring and in-school intervention that had very slow effect.  It also affected her class behavior...because she had such a hard time trying to read, she'd give up and want to talk to her neighbor.

She started vision therapy this past fall and has seen a huge improvement in just 6 months with the weekly sessions to retrain her eyes to focus on one point from 18 inches in.  She has jumped up 4 reading levels and was at grade level in her last DRA evaluation 2 weeks ago.  She failed last year's Reading SOL and just made 465 on this year's Reading SOL.  She is almost never is distracted in class anymore.  So yes, vision therapy for that issue does work.[/quote]

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