I would let her listen to audiobooks to get through the advanced content books that she's probably craving - my kids, no matter how well they can read, all loved audiobooks at her age
Re the strabismus, one of my nieces has strabismus that is corrected by wearing a contact lens. Her parents had an option to have it corrected surgically when she was around 5-6 years old but chose not to... can't remember why. Anyway, the lens is amazing - you would never know that without it her eye turns completely outward. I don't know if this is an option for a young child, but fwiw I would *absolutely* tell her eye dr that the eye is wandering while she reads. If the eye dr isn't concerned... honestly, I'd find another eye dr.
Though it's not exactly the same situation, our dd11 has double vision due to inability to focus her eyes. We've been told it's ok to have her wear her patch first on one eye and then the other when she's doing near-vision work such as reading to help avoid her total eye strain. When she does this, she's sometimes able to read better with both eyes unpatched after the initial period wearing the patch (this is all in one time session, not improvement over days). We've also been told re our dd that it's not good to leave things like this untreated or uncorrected or whatever because the brain will eventually shut the vision off temporarily in one eye when trying to compensate for eyes that can't easily focus together. Shutting off one eye shuts down so much of a person's peripheral vision and impacts depth perception. We can usually tell when our dd's eye shuts off because she bends her head a certain way while reading etc.
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