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<blockquote data-quote="svengandhi" data-source="post: 604187" data-attributes="member: 3493"><p>My easy child hated to read and would have violent headaches leading to tantrums in school when he was younger. He wore glasses since K but had trouble reading. In 4th grade, I took him to a developmental optometrist. She said his glasses were wrong because he was near sighted in one eye and far sighted in the other and his glasses were an average! He now wears progressive bifocals. He also had 9 months of vision therapy. Within a month of starting vision therapy and getting the right glasses, his headaches were gone and he loved to read. In 7th grade, he was diagnosed with mild dyslexia. The accommodations he gets are preferential seating, extra time on exams (which he hates to use but does since we explained that it's to help him show how smart he is), copies of class notes and the right to use a voice dictation program on long assignments. He is also spelling exempt but is doing well in foreign language, Latin.</p><p></p><p>My son is doing well in school. He is entering HS and is in honors Bio but not math because VT can't accomplish everything, LOL! He's an A+ student in history because he can now see to read.</p><p></p><p>I was extremely nearsighted as a child but didn't realize that the rest of the world didn't see the same things. easy child was probably in the same boat. When my son got his bifocals, he said he didn't realize that things weren't blurry for everyone else.</p><p></p><p>The best part of your story is that difficult child cared enough about easy child to approach you about easy child's vision. I think this bodes really well for difficult child's future.</p><p></p><p>Go for the vision therapy. It's not a cure but it can help compensate for visual difficulties.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="svengandhi, post: 604187, member: 3493"] My easy child hated to read and would have violent headaches leading to tantrums in school when he was younger. He wore glasses since K but had trouble reading. In 4th grade, I took him to a developmental optometrist. She said his glasses were wrong because he was near sighted in one eye and far sighted in the other and his glasses were an average! He now wears progressive bifocals. He also had 9 months of vision therapy. Within a month of starting vision therapy and getting the right glasses, his headaches were gone and he loved to read. In 7th grade, he was diagnosed with mild dyslexia. The accommodations he gets are preferential seating, extra time on exams (which he hates to use but does since we explained that it's to help him show how smart he is), copies of class notes and the right to use a voice dictation program on long assignments. He is also spelling exempt but is doing well in foreign language, Latin. My son is doing well in school. He is entering HS and is in honors Bio but not math because VT can't accomplish everything, LOL! He's an A+ student in history because he can now see to read. I was extremely nearsighted as a child but didn't realize that the rest of the world didn't see the same things. easy child was probably in the same boat. When my son got his bifocals, he said he didn't realize that things weren't blurry for everyone else. The best part of your story is that difficult child cared enough about easy child to approach you about easy child's vision. I think this bodes really well for difficult child's future. Go for the vision therapy. It's not a cure but it can help compensate for visual difficulties. [/QUOTE]
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