![]() Regardless of your age, mild hearing loss greatly impacts more than just your hearing.Ī study completed by Frank Lin at John Hopkins’ Univ. Chronic congestion is a significant concern, because it negatively affects your hearing for prolong periods of time. Inflammation of eustachian tubes can last up to three or more weeks. Inflamed eustachian tubes cause mild hearing loss, which distorts sounds making it more difficult to listen with comprehension. What happens when preschoolers and children suffer chronic congestion inflaming their eustachian tube with or without an ear infection? Randomized clinical trial of treatments for symptomatic convergence insufficiency in children. Home-based computer therapy with therapeutic exercisesĪ greater percentage of children (73%) who received an in-office vision therapy program with in-home eye-exercises made significantly more progress resulting in significantly lower convergence difficulties (15.1) when compared to a much lower percentage of participants (35%, 33%, 43%) making some progress who received vision therapy only at home or in-office, non-therapeutic visual activities with in-home visual activities.Įvidence-based Results for Vision Therapy from 9 research sites. % of participant’s meeting goals for near vision convergence skills Research Significantly Supports Improved Visual Processing Skills After Vision Therapy Randomized, Blind Study (221 children 9-17 yrs.) Convergence Insufficiency 12 week Intervention ProgramĬonvergence Insufficiency Score (lower number means improvements) Within the video below is an activity helping you learn how well sound energy from your voice travels along your skull bones to both ears. Two years later, she enjoyed learning and reading. Wow, I had a little genius!Īfter one year of vision therapy, my daughter became more confident, almost reading on grade level. Imagine my disbelief when I learned my daughter saw letters turning upside down and moving, preventing her from reading with ease. I found answers and started asking the right questions. Why was I unable to teach my own child? What did I not know? She cried on the outside while I cried on the inside. My child saw friends and peers reading and writing with ease. By the end of my daughter’s year of second grade, my heart started to break. ![]() I taught orally and then retaught visually and then taught some more. Modifying curriculum and teaching through hands-on activities was not working. ![]() My experiences as a certified teacher homeschooling a struggling reader caused me to question my knowledge and abilities as a teacher. When What You See Fails to Synch-Up With What You Hear
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