Use of visual training for reading disabilities: a review

Visual training continues to be used as a remediation technique for reading disabilities despite consistent evidence that it does not provide effective treatment. A review of the ophthalmologic, optometric, and psychological literature relating to the assumption that a relationship exists between re...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 1984-06, Vol.73 (6), p.824-829
Main Authors: METZGER, R. L, WERNER, D. B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child, Preschool
Dyslexia - etiology
Dyslexia - physiopathology
Dyslexia - therapy
Eye Movements
Humans
Medical sciences
Methods
Motor Skills
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Reeducation. Readaptation. Sociotherapy
Refraction, Ocular
Strabismus - complications
Treatments
Vision, Ocular
Visual Perception
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Summary:Visual training continues to be used as a remediation technique for reading disabilities despite consistent evidence that it does not provide effective treatment. A review of the ophthalmologic, optometric, and psychological literature relating to the assumption that a relationship exists between reading failure and perceptual ability has found no evidence to support this assumption.
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.73.6.824