Diagnosis of dyslexia by means of a new indicator of eye dominance.
Open Access
- 1 May 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in British Journal of Ophthalmology
- Vol. 66 (5) , 332-336
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.66.5.332
Abstract
Many dyslexic children are unable accurately to control the movements of their eyes even when they are not trying to read. This immaturity helps to explain their visual confusions. It may result from failure to develop dependable associations between retinal and ocular motor signals these are essential to fix the true, as opposed to retinotopic, locations of objects in the outside world. We have used a new test to study retinal/ocular motor correspondence in dyslexic children and age/IQ matched normal readers. Over half the dyslexics showed unstable ocular motor dominance.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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