My son who has learning disabilities in reading and math and is in middle school told me that when he is looking at the teachers when they speak, they begin to look like they are in 3-D and are moving towards him. He also said that when he is reading, the words do the same thing. I had his vision tested and he has perfect eye sight, good perceptual skills, no color problems and strong occular muscles. Has anyone heard of a child having these same type of experiences.
Re: 3-D visual effects complaint
This happens to me. It is because my eyes get “fixed” on something. I think it is sort of like when you smell a smell for a while, you eventually become sensitized to it, so you don’t really smell it much any more. Like when you go into a cave for a while, the outside smells very strong when you come out, but eventualy fades. Or you stop smelling your dinner cooking after a few minutes. Like that.
So if I don’t make myself look at other things for awhile, then my eyes will get fixed or stuck on something, and it eventually will start to fade, so then my eyes will twitch or do something like that, to prevent the image from fading. Sometimes it makes what I am looking at seem to be 3D or move toward me.
Maybe it can also be where one eye wanders around and so the image your son sees moves strange to him, so his brain tries to make sense of it and makes him see 3D and movement.
I think you should have your son checked by a professional who knows more about this sort of thing than a regular eye doctor would know. The other answer here has some good ideas, or maybe his school or other parents of kids at his school would have a name of a good doctor for you.
Re: 3-D visual effects complaint
My son has a distinct vision problem that was not picked up by an opthalmologist after more than one session of testing. 20-20 vision, no pathology was always the diagnosis. I think the advice to see a developmental optometrist is good advice, even though opthalmologists will often label them “quacks”.
Carol
Re: 3-D visual effects complaint
Same here-20/20 no problem but reading things that were not on the page, creating his own words, skipping lines, complaining of words moving and headaches. 20 sessions of Vision Therapy later he has read harry Potter 1, 2 and 3 this summer along with several other grade level books. I have never regretted any of the time spent in vision therapy. It is worth checking out.
Sounds like he had more than the run-of-the-mill eye test but, if it was done by an opthalmologist, it probably did not include about 20 tests of visual function relating to developmental vision skills. We have a wonderful opthalmologist, but he isn’t trained in developmental vision problems and did not catch our daughter’s very severe developmental vision delays.
I’m not an expert, but what you are describing sounds to me like a problem with eye teaming. This is a vision skill that can be trained.
Here are some websites with information to check out:
http://www.vision3d.com
http://www.visionhelp.com
http://www.visiontherapy.org
http://www.covd.org (search engine to find developmental optometrists)
http://www.visiontherapydirectory.com (referrals to eye doctors who do vision therapy)
Mary