Vision Therapy AND DYSLEXIA

Vision Therapy: A Primer and Caution for Pediatricians

Vision therapy, also known as behavioral therapy, is theorized by its practitioners to treat a variety of visual disorders, including learning disability in children. However, the utility of vision therapy to treat various learning disabilities is challenged.

A critique of behavioural vision therapy techniques for children with reading difficulties including dyslexia

Specific learning disabilities affect the brain’s ability to process verbal and non-verbal information efficiently and accurately. The most common learning disability is reading disability which includes dyslexia. Evidence supports that dyslexia is a language-based disorder.

Understandings and Misunderstandings About Dyslexia: Introduction to the Special Issue

The purpose of this special issue was to provide a forum for contemporary research and thoughtful discourse about dyslexia.