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Child Language Teaching and Therapy, Vol. 3, No. 3, 293-304 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/026565908700300306

Reading problems and ocular anomalies

P.G. Bicknell

Moor House School, Oxted

K.M. Ripley

Moor House School, Oxted

Children at Moor House School for speech and language disorders were screened for minor ocular anomalies which might have affected their progress with reading. Ophthalmic investigation showed that 17 of the 23 children included in the initial screening had difficulties which merited intervention. The children with exophoria were introduced to a programme of eye exercises. The children with esophoria and those with miscellaneous ocular problems were given appropriate optical corrections. The treatment of minor ocular anomalies was found to have had a beneficial effect upon the rate of reading progress in a speech and language disordered population, and it may be an equally relevant form of intervention for some of the cases of specific literacy problems which are found in the main stream school population.


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