Are Weak Eye Muscles Holding Your Child Back at School? [Scot Region Edition 2]
Daily Mail › September 15, 2009
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MOST children who returned to school last week will have enjoyed catching up with friends and swapping tales of the holidays.
But for the estimated two million in the UK who have dyslexia or other conditions that mean they need extra help with reading, it's a worrying time. School means reading, and lots of it. It's not just that they find it hard: it can also be a pain, quite literally. There are all sorts of reasons for learning difficulties, but for some children - perhaps as many as 400,000 - the problem lies with the way their eyes work.See the full content of this document
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Are Weak Eye Muscles Holding Your Child Back at School? [Scot Region Edition 2]
If the muscles around the eyes are weak, the eyes won't work as a co-ordinated pair. This makes it difficult to focus clearly on something as small as the printed words on a page.
Quite apart from causing reading problems, this inability to focus the eyes together can lead to headaches. Children who have difficulty reading may also have super-sensitive brain cells, which means they find the actual ...See the full content of this document
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