What Symptoms Should You Look Out For?
Teachers and parents are amazing at detecting vision issues. Here are some of the issues for which you should be on the lookout:
- Double vision
- Difficulty reading
- Poor classroom performance
- Difficulty staying focused/poor attention
- Strabismus (an eye turn)
- Frequently eye rubbing
- Blurry vision after reading
- Letter or number reversals
- Holds things too close to the face
- Confuses left and right
- Poor sports performance
- Amblyopia (lazy eye)
- Poor hand-eye coordination
- Constant squinting/head tilting
- Using fingers to read
- Frequently losing place or leaves out words when reading
- Favors one eye over the other
- Poor handwriting
- Headaches or fatigue after reading or computer work
