Does your son or daughter have trouble reading in school? Have you had their vision checked for tracking problems? My son couldn't read in Kindergarten and his writing was horrible!!! I took him to a specialist who tested him using little goggles to see how his tracking was doing. I was amazed!!!! His eye movement was all over the place, one eye went left while the other went right and rarely did they move together. The eye doctor prescribed prism glasses and he was reading in about a month!! What a huge difference the glasses made in his life. Here's a link to a similar test like he took: http://www.micromedical.com/visualeyes.html.
Signs of your child having vision problems are starring out into space. Looking up and back down at the page quickly to refocus while reading.....many reading instructors see this as a "tick" however the child is trying to follow the line and refocus. Taking deep breathes while reading. I know this sounds crazy but have you ever been nervous and took deep breathes to help you cope with the situation. My son would stop after every line and take a deep breathe....drove the teacher's nuts. Once we put him in the glasses, the reading came very quickly and all his reading habits disappeared. Now he has a major love for reading and owns a kindle to download books! I suggest teaching your child to use their finger and point to every word so they don't lose their place in the line and have them tested....what could it hurt!
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