Dyslexia

Question 1

vision correlation on dyslexia

Answer 1

low aa
bv instability
impaired flicker detection
reduced cv
no causative role in dyslexia

Question 2

how to detect learning related vision problem

Answer 2

patient history
- visual integrity
- visual efficiency
- visual information processing

Question 3

what are the factors affecting reading skills

Answer 3

intelligence
personal motivation
family environment ; encouragement, books read and found at home, library visit, educational;, socio-economic background
school environment; ability of teacher and peer attitudes

Question 4

Rx association with vision and reading

Answer 4

hyperopia >0.75 = poor reading
myopia = above average reading skills

*reading ability is unlikely to be caused by rx but it may be made worse