Undiagnosed learning-related vision problems often mimic or complicate dyslexia and in many cases, our patients are suspected to have dyslexia. Some people have difficulty making both eyes turn inward onto the page and then making accurate and coordinated eye movements from word to word. If a child’s eyes are not working together as a team, vision-related symptoms consistent with dyslexia can occur and school performance can begin to suffer. In cases where true developmental dyslexia has been diagnosed, their symptoms are often greatly reduced or even eliminated after vision therapy.

Symptoms: Patients have reported that letters can appear double, blurry, mixed around, floating, swimming, moving and even melting. If it takes excessive effort to focus the eyes up close, that automatic process now requires cognitive effort and takes attention away from understanding, comprehending, and taking meaning from the text.