 Visual
Processing Disorders (VPD)
Children must have visual skills in addition to their sharpness of
sight, or visual acuity.
Each eye sees independently and transmits
images to the optic nerves in the brain and combines them into a single
picture.
Each eye must aim at the exact point in space so that the
images being recorded are identical.
This allows the brain to combine
or “fuse” together the two incoming images for clear,
comfortable, single vision. However, if the eyes aren’t aiming
together, the images being recorded are slightly different.
Symptoms
Children with eye teaming or tracking problems can be highly distracted,
finding it difficult to concentrate and remain on task because the
strain on their eyes is so great.
Other symptoms of eye teaming problems
include loss of place as the print “swims” or moves, eyestrain,
fatigue, headaches, and frustration.
Children with eye teaming problems
often have poor visual skills in other areas such as eye tracking
and focusing (shifting from near to far sight), as well as visual
perception and gross or fine eye-body coordination.
Fortunately vision
is a learned skill, just as language or walking are learned; and therefore
trainable through the proper vision therapies.
If your child is experiencing Visual Processing Disorders, I can help! Please call me today for a free consultation at (949) 955-3233 or email me at lisaenn@aol.com
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