TIMELY INFORMATION ABOUT SCHOOL & YOUR CHILD!
Was your child among the 25% who could not keep up with the rest of the class? Does your child have to revisit the same grade? Will your child need special attention next year that ads to the burden your child had to endure last year? Maybe your child has a visually related learning problem. in the areas discussed above: Binocular vision and vision processing.
Yet your child passed the school vision screening program, you say. Unfortunately, well intended with the start in 1947, at best, screening detects only those with good grades and poor eyesight. Even then, it is too late to reverse most of the eyesight conditions. At worst, it gives a false impression vision is not causing your child’s learning problem. Maybe you have that false impression.
Could you or your teachers tell if this child needed a vision referral? Probably not!
She has three very evident vision conditions:
1. She has a vision development problem evidenced by the fist pencil grip.
2. She has a binocular vision condition evidenced by the twist of her head making her nose block her right eye.
3. She is or about to become nearsighted since she is too close to her paper and holding the pencil near the tip.
Teachers attending Dr. Henshaw’s training would know the above and more. Go to How can I tell if my student or child has a visually related learning problem? Better yet, bring your child in to be sure there is no vision condition hindering your child’s school performance. Call 334-2020.
She has three very evident vision conditions:
1. She has a vision development problem evidenced by the fist pencil grip.
2. She has a binocular vision condition evidenced by the twist of her head making her nose block her right eye.
3. She is or about to become nearsighted since she is too close to her paper and holding the pencil near the tip.
Teachers attending Dr. Henshaw’s training would know the above and more. Go to How can I tell if my student or child has a visually related learning problem? Better yet, bring your child in to be sure there is no vision condition hindering your child’s school performance. Call 334-2020.
A recent teacher discussion on Facebook
Recently a teacher in discussing digital learning mentioned, “... 2 years ago 9 of my 24 students had ... prescription ...glasses, last year it was ... closer to 5 or 6 but that is still a lot.”
Vision conditions she was able to observe varied from 38% to 25%. We already know 25% of our students are failing, and that stat is too many. My patients don’t show yearly for their exams as advised. Some insurance companies advise two years, and not all do that. Some kids are prescribed glasses but don’t wear them. Thus, some of the 75% to 62% not observed to wear glasses may need them. However, the need for compensative eyeglasses (incorrectly labeled corrective) is not the only vision condition. The more common conditions are related to binocular vision. At least 60% of my patients have binocular vision difficulty.
An educator’s concern may be directed to conditions interfering with learning. The Dartmouth Study done decades ago found myopia has nothing to do with learning. The opposite is true. The good learners have the worst visual acuity. Visual acuity is the only finding our antiquated misleading school screening uses. That may be why the good learners wear glasses. Binocular vision does affect learning, but by about only one grade level. The one factor that is involved in learning, vision processing, isn’t even considered in school screening and missed by the many eye doctors. Vision processing difficulty can bring you from an A to an F. We haven’t even considered reduced vision fields from traumatic brain injury, much more common than thought. It is safe to say 75% of our students have a vision condition that in varying degrees interfere with their lives. Why do we want to worsen it with digital learning?
Recently a teacher in discussing digital learning mentioned, “... 2 years ago 9 of my 24 students had ... prescription ...glasses, last year it was ... closer to 5 or 6 but that is still a lot.”
Vision conditions she was able to observe varied from 38% to 25%. We already know 25% of our students are failing, and that stat is too many. My patients don’t show yearly for their exams as advised. Some insurance companies advise two years, and not all do that. Some kids are prescribed glasses but don’t wear them. Thus, some of the 75% to 62% not observed to wear glasses may need them. However, the need for compensative eyeglasses (incorrectly labeled corrective) is not the only vision condition. The more common conditions are related to binocular vision. At least 60% of my patients have binocular vision difficulty.
An educator’s concern may be directed to conditions interfering with learning. The Dartmouth Study done decades ago found myopia has nothing to do with learning. The opposite is true. The good learners have the worst visual acuity. Visual acuity is the only finding our antiquated misleading school screening uses. That may be why the good learners wear glasses. Binocular vision does affect learning, but by about only one grade level. The one factor that is involved in learning, vision processing, isn’t even considered in school screening and missed by the many eye doctors. Vision processing difficulty can bring you from an A to an F. We haven’t even considered reduced vision fields from traumatic brain injury, much more common than thought. It is safe to say 75% of our students have a vision condition that in varying degrees interfere with their lives. Why do we want to worsen it with digital learning?
...and a moment about school vision screening...Yet your child passed the school vision screening program, you say. Unfortunately, well intended with the start in 1947, at best, screening detects only those with good grades and poor eyesight. Even then, it is too late to reverse most of the eyesight conditions. At worst, it gives a false impression vision is not causing your child’s learning problem. Maybe you have that false impression.
Remember, school screening started in 1947 and minimally changed in 2005 with no recognizable difference. In other words, it has not changed since 1947. California School Screening does not detect a visually related learning problem. Vision processing, the most important vision skill in visually related learning problems, was not in widespread treatment until 1988.