Use of Visual Training for Reading Disabilities: A Review
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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