I’m curious if anyone here has ever tried having their dyslexic or reading disabled child read with a patch over one eye?
If so, did you notice a difference? Was it a huge difference or subtle one? Did your child notice a difference?
Re: Reading with a Patch over one Eye
Linda,
It sounds like your son is making very good progress!!! That’s great!!!!!! :-)
I decided to test my son with a reading eye patch (just out of curiosity ). It was difficult to tell if he had an easier with or without the eye patch. Also, he didn’t notice a difference.
I was just wondering of anyone else has ever tried this and what kind of results they had.
By the way, how long now have you been doing eye exercises with your son? Didn’t you also do some visual perceptual exercises awhile back?
Re: Reading with a Patch over one Eye
Yes, we did the visual perceptual exercises from the book, “Helping children Overcome Learning Differences,” by Jerome Rosner. (sorry title may not be exactly right, I lent out that book.)
I thought the visual perception exercises really helped alot. We did IM at the same time and that really gave him an edge with doing the visual perception exercises. He was going really slow 5 forms a day then all of a sudden he made strides at IM and he was able to skip about 100 forms. So, I will never be able to tell if it was the IM or the exercises. After that he could read charts for the first time and draw better.His spacing while writing improved as well. I don’t think it helped the tracking though.
If I were to do it over I would go after the tracking first.
Laura,
I am guessing you are referring to Prof Steins work. He also did some work with fixation exercises. I have been doing this with my son and have noticed and improvement and so has he.
He actually thanked me the other night. He said, “Thanks mom, now I can read like any regular kid. You are the best mom for helping me with this.” He said, The letters no longer move on the page.” He is more willing to read and last night I had to tell him to stop and go to bed.
I don’t think this problem is completely fixed but I think it is better. He hated to do those circle ‘e’s in the beginning. Now he does them willingly because he says, “I know they are making my eyes stronger and that is what I need.” He has always been pretty self aware so I do think that his sense that things have improved means alot.
I want to thank the person who came on here a few weeks ago to tell us about those exercises. He also was doing the fixation block game from www.balametrics.com
He wasn’t really skipping words which may or may not be a different problem requiring a different approach.