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C.O.V.D. presents August is Vision & Learning Month Each year, the College of Optometrists in Vision Development promotes August as Vision and Learning Month. What’s this all about? With school starting soon, it’s an excellent time for an eye exam. After all, up to 80% of learning comes through the visual system. The problem parents and their kids run into is that many kids have “20/20” visual acuity (meaning they can read the smallest letters on the eye chart) yet still have

I recently had a discussion with a parent about behavior and vision problems. A mom of photo from Newsbusters.org one of our patients told me that the biggest change she has noticed is that, “It’s not nuclear war anymore,” when she tells her daughter it’s homework time. This makes perfect sense to me, and we hear similar stories all the time. If you, as an adult, were asked to do something frustrating, arduous and painful, on a daily basis, you would eventually refuse. You mi

The September issue of Vision & Learning News has news you can use, just in time for back to school. Are your kids having vision issues that keep them from learning as well as they should? Are they working too hard to get their homework done? The 5 most common signs that a vision problem may be interfering with your student’s ability to read and learn are: Skips lines, rereads lines Poor reading comprehension Homework takes longer than it should Reverses letters like “b” into