Resources for Teachers

• How Your Eyes Work
• A Look at Reading and Vision
• Activity Sheets
• Classroom Exercises
• 3D Vision and Eye Health

Over 10 million children in the United States suffer from undetected vision problems. These vision problems often contribute to difficulties in the classroom, even in students who score 20/20 vision in a vision screening.

The reason for this is that 20/20 vision simply means that someone can see something 20 feet away that they are supposed to be able to see at 20 feet away. 20/20 vision does not account for eye tracking skill, or a child's tremendous ability to focus his or her eye sight over a short period of time.

Common symptoms of vision problems in children are:

• intermittent blur, especially when reading
• headache
• eye strain
• loss of concentration
• consistent loss of place when reading

When left untreated, these vision conditions often interfere with a child's learning development. This difficulty often negatively influences self-esteem, which further impairs learning development.

Regular eye examinations can catch many of these problems, offering hope of improving visual ability and comfort.