This guide and checklist has been prepared to assist all school personnel and consulting clinicians in making reliable observations of children's visual behavior that could be interfering with academic progress. It is most important for all concerned with children's school success to recognize that nearly all the visual problems that deter children will NOT be uncovered by the Snellen Chart, nor by most stereoscopic devices.
Sight is the mere ability to see, and the eye's responses to light shining into it.
Vision is the result of the child's ability to interpret and understand information that comes to him through his eyes. The areas of visual performance demanded in the classroom are described in this folder. This material is based upon many years of clinical and classroom studies by educators and optometrists. See 3A. on Educator's Checklist Problems that a child may be having in this area of visual performance will most likely be observed while he is occupied with workbooks, reading, and other near-point tasks. These improvements should come about if the child is given added opportunities to acquire general and special action skills, as well as visual and developmental experiences that can be provided by available classroom programs.