Symptoms Checklist

• Loses place when moving gaze from desk work to chalkboard, or when copying from text to notebook

• Uses a marker or note card to keep their place when reading

• Irregular letters, word spacing or writing up or downhill

• Reverses letters (b for d) or words (saw for was)

• Regularly omits “small” words

• Rereads or skips words or lines unknowingly

• Fails to visualize (can’t describe what they have been reading)

• Fails to recognize the same word in the next sentence

• Misaligns digits in columns of numbers

• Headaches after reading or near work

• Burning or itching eyes after doing near vision work

• Blinks excessively when doing near work, but not otherwise

• Rubs eyes during or after short periods of reading

• Comprehension declines as reading continues

Patients with these systems would make a great vision therapy candidate.