My DD is in year 1, and aged 6. She has been followed up regularly by an optician as has very slight long sightedness, and on her last visit he suggested she had milde / borderline convergence insufficiency and gave me "pencil pushup" excercises to do with her. I have since read though that these are not particularly effective. Can anyone suggest any other approaches, other than having a specialist appointment / followup with a behavioural optometrist? I'm a bit reluctant to do this because of cost, but am beginning to wonder if it is affecting her learning somewhat. Her reading level is fine for her age, but she regularly misses out small "easy" words like and and the (or substitutes something else) and after reading for a while seems to start mixing up words I know she can read (i.e. will mix up where and there) or when sounding out a new word will use the wrong letter sound. I will obviously dig deep and take her for assessment if this seems to be becoming more of a problem, but was wondering if anyone could suggest further exercises I could do at home in the meantime?