The Vantage Reading course is like no other course. It teaches reading to those whose reading difficulties stem from VISION SKILLS problems. Vision means much more than having 20/20 eyesight. If vision skills are not good, even though one has 20/20 eyesight, reading will be difficult. Our programs work with those many other absolutely essential vision skills like saccades, accommodation, convergence, and tracking.
Reading is a survival skill in today’s society. Without strong reading skills chances for success are greatly diminished. At an early age poor readers become disillusioned with school and often drop out. This leads to a myriad of frustrations and problems. If our assessment tools indicate poor vision skills, our programs can stop this progressive decline and give a child or adult hope for the future and a lifetime of successful reading.
Most children with poor vision skills are bright, verbal, and have outstanding verbal memories. For these children the parent and teacher refrain “If you work harder you can do it, “does not work!
To read the English language we think our eyes just read from left to right, but actually the task is much more complicated. Our eyes move horizontally and vertically in fluid motions in order to accomplish the reading task. This is called eye tracking. Our kit has a complete vision screening component, but the following checklist is a powerful indicator that our program is the answer to problem reading and writing.
We suggest you print this checklist and give it to your teacher to use.
Click here to download Teacher’s Vision Checklist