The Science
The eyes and the brain need to work together.Instead of steady binocular fixation (where both eyes are working well together), clients with Dyslexia symptoms will typically have unsteady fixation of one of their eyes. There is movement over the Fovea focus point.
Holding a clear focus at any level of gaze cannot be maintained. As fixation fails so does the patient’s concentration. As there is unsteady or incorrect fixation, the frontal lobe of the brain lays down deep central suppression in the Visual Cortex of the affected eye. This is the brains response to the effects of vision discrepancy between the eyes, and it is the main cause for their learning problem.
The Visual Cortex is at the back of the brain. A simple analogy of the Visual Cortex is that of a ‘layer cake’ with 7 layers of granulated cells which acts as a receiving station for information from the eyes. The eye is like the camera. The Visual Cortex makes sense of what the eyes see, and sends that information to the frontal lobe (upper area of the brain), which interprets what is being seen. Good literacy requires a effective and uninterrupted interplay between these elements. Unsteady focus stops the smooth running of this eye/brain functioning.
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