Puerile time is a key period of children’s development, including intellectual, social and physical development. They learn much knowledge about the nature, science and human communications while they grow up rapidly physically. Parents will pay much attention at these aspects to provide their children a well-balanced growth condition. However, preschool visual development and vision therapy is often ignored, which can be critical in children’s study and school performance during their puerile period.
In general preschool development, there is a specific development points called milestones. These specific time frames are charted to see if the child has physical development problems or intellectual challenges. It is usually very useful and easy to find problems which can be solved in time after suitable therapy.
However, it is much harder to find the children’s vision problems by setting such milestones. What we do now to exam the visual system of children? Most of the parents, teachers or even optometrists just exam the child to see if they can see properly, for instance, can they see 20/20 line clearly? Optometrists may do more to exam if the children’s eye is straight. But, these exams are really not enough in judging the health condition of their visual system.
Experts in the children’s vision development and vision therapy have suggested a higher standard that may change a child’s whole life. It is found that kids with identifiable learning disabilities have vast majority to have problems of their visual system. It is a pity that almost all of the children can pass the Optometrists’ eye tests. In other words, passing the eye tests is just a base level, there is much more to learning about how to develop the children’s visual system by a series of vision therapy.
Vision therapy is researched to develop preschool vision skills of the children. These vision therapy include eye coordination and focus, eye movements at all directions, coding, sequencing, gross and fine motor, balance, visual memory, and so on. These therapies are not only used to develop the visual system but also have amazing effects on the development of learning skills such as reading, writing, and remember spelling words without magic pill or magic glasses. All these skills can be trained!
So don’t hesitate doing the right vision therapies, it can help developing your child’s learning ability as well as their vision system.