knute, fwiw, I don't think my dd could have faked her VT computer exercises - they were things that forced her eyes to track etc... if she'd attempted to fake it, it would have been reflected as no progress in her scores. There was a way to see progress over time on my dd's program, and they were also short exercises - no more than 15 minutes total, made up of very short subsets of tasks. DD liked them. OTOH, I think it that the non-computer exercises she did were much more obviously helpful for her vision.
polarbear
ps - fwiw, I'll also add - we've been told that we should take our younger dd for a developmental optometrist eval - and the first horrible parent thought that flung itself into my head was NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Not another YEAR of VT exercises at home.... AAAAGGGGHHHH!!!! (blush). Of course we'll do it if she needs it, but ugh. VT can be very time consuming for the parent involved!
