However, no task is more challenging in those early years of school than learning to read. Reading requires children to accurately use all of their language, decoding, phonetic, and visual skills to successfully recognize words and gather meaning from the written text. Some of these children suffer from learning disabilities or dyslexia, the inability of the brain's verbal language or auditory processing centers to accurately decode print or phonetically make the connection between the word's written symbols and their appropriate sounds. It's their vision that is interfering with their ability to read.
Vision plays a vital role in the reading process.
First of all, children must have crisp, sharp eyesight in order to see the print clearly. Unfortunately, this is all school vision screenings are designed to check, and children's vision involves so much more. For success in school, children must have other equally important visual skills besides their sharpness of sight, or visual acuity. They must also be able to coordinate their eye movements as a team. They must be able to follow a line of print without losing their place.