Cheap Vision Therapy

[IndigoBell]

For those of you who have been following all the threads where vision therapy is mentioned, I think I have finally found a cheap, accessible alternative.

Vision & Learning Handbook seems to be a book you can download which allows you to screen your child for vision problems (like eye tracking problems), and provides exercises to help.

These are not vision problems that opticians test for. This is nothing to do with being short or long sighted. An optician can tell you your vision is fine, when it's really, really not.

I haven't bought the book (yet) - so I can't tell you whether it's any good or not.

Approx 25% of kids have these kinds of vision problems - so it is very common.

Symptoms you might notice are:

• Difficulties learning to read
• Difficulties with spelling (even though can read)
• Missing words or lines when reading
• Sore eyes
• Hates reading
• Dyslexia
• ADHD

If any parents (or teachers) buy the book, can you please post on here or PM me to let me know how it goes?

I really want to find something easy that schools can use to help the 25% of kids who have problems like this - and to stop kids from getting wrongly labelled as 'dyslexic'

Other symptoms are reversing letters (like b and d) or words (like was and saw)

Sorry Indigo, if these questions are a bit daft ...

But does the child have to be able to read to do this programme?

And do you think it would work on an applemac computer? I was about to buy one of the other home programmes you suggested on a different thread, but was pretty sure I would not be able to use it on our only computer, which is an applemac.

Is this the sort of thing Tinsley House uses, do you think??

This is a book they email you, so you should be able to read it on an applemac.

I'm sure you'll be able to do it with a kid who can't read.

I suspect it'll be full of exercises like 'read the first letter than last letter of every line' or even catching a ball. (but I don't know. That's just a guess).

This is not what TH uses. But I presume it's the same kind of exercises that the behaviour optometrist gave us to do every day.

At £10 it's something you can start with today.

I'll have a look at those other sites and see if they can be used on an applemac.

How old is your child?
What is his reading like?