PEDIATRICS Vol. 73 No. 6 June 1984, pp. 824-829
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Use of Visual Training for Reading Disabilities: A Review

Richard L. Metzger PhD1 and David B. Werner MD1

1 From the Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Visual training continues to be used as a remediation technique for reading disabilities despite consistent evidence that it does not provide effective treatment. A review of the ophthalmologic, optometric, and psychological literature relating to the assumption that a relationship exists between reading failure and perceptual ability has found no evidence to support this assumption.

Key Words: visual training • reading disabilities • perceptual skills

Accepted on June 13, 1983




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