I am partially sighted, and have very poor vision for reading books. Hence, I tend to hold books very close to my face (about 12 inches) when reading.
DS (yr 1) also holds books really close to his face, and I think it's because that's what he's always seen me doing. He is a fairly good reader for his age, but makes odd mistakes when reading. For example, he would read the word 'wound' as 'would'.
We had him checked out by the optician today and (as suspected) it turns out that he has 20:20 distance vision bu is slightly long-sighted. The optician doesn't want to prescribe him glasses as yet as it's not that bad and getting dependent on glasses is probably not great at his age.
Should I mention this to his teacher, or just leave it? What size font should a 6 year old be able to read? HIs reading books look really small to me but that's because I can only read font size 20+. Where should I be 'forcing' him to hold his books?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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DS long-sighted, I am partially sighted - what to do?
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radicalsubstitution · 13/04/2013 22:14
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