DS also had a visual tracking and convergence issue - he underwent therapy for close to a year and is pronounced to be normal now. This could have led to his shorter attention span for reading lengthy books - old habits are hard to break, possibly.
Cricket2, does you daughter fit the bill here?
BTW, I saw a huge step up in reading after vision therapy, from when he turned 6.
Dd does like magazines and graphic novels better, but she reads magazines really only if she needs or wants the info, not for pleasure. She did used to have issues with losing her place on pages with a lot of words, but does not anymore. She can read busy small print novels without needing a finger to follow along, for instance.
Her bigger issue is it sounding somewhat choppy when she reads out loud. It isn't fluid like speech much of the time especially with books that are at or above grade level.
In re to vision therapy, I have to admit that I am a bit of a skeptic. We looked into it a few years back for dd11 b/c the center that tested her at 7 suggested that her slower PSI indicated a potential tracking issue. Given that she could read books like the unabridged Call of the Wild by 7 with no tracking issues, we were not sure that she really had tracking issues and didn't spend a bunch of time investigating that one for her.
What left me unsure was that none of the opthomologists with whom I spoke who did vision therapy could tell me that there was a totally objective means of saying, "yes, there is a problem." It seemed too subjective for my tastes and I've spoken with some parents who have had great success as well as others who felt like they spent thousands of dollars over the course of months and months of therapy and saw no improvement at all. Since our insurance does not cover vision therapy, I just don't know if I want to take that expensive of a gamble.
We did have her eyes checked for just basic glasses type of stuff about a year and a half ago. She was mildly more far sighted than typical for her age. We got her a mild prescription that didn't seem to do much of anything and she stopped wearing the glasses for reading when the novelty & fashion statement wore off.
