We did visual therapy with a speech pathologist. She used the glasses as my DS read stuff, and each week we went up on the glasses. Anyway, it did help him with the reading. We don't exactly understand why it helped him.
The vision therapy our dd had didn't involve using lenses but instead involved a lot of different types of exercises which we repeated daily at home. We were given an explanation with each exercise re how it worked and what specifically was targeted, as well as having performance goals that had to be met before moving on.
Our dd had tracking issues, double vision, and limited peripheral vision. We were able to actually see her tracking difficulties once we we to look for them, and we were able to ask her about double vision and she could tell us when she was seeing double as well as show is how limited her peripheral vision was. As she made improvements with via therapy symptoms disappeared such as clumsiness, not following directions easily etc and her reading ability sky-rocketed.
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