Regular prescription eyeglasses or contact lenses are not a substitute for appropriate, well-fitted protective eyewear. Thousands of children suffer sports-related eye injuries each year and nearly all can be prevented by using the proper protective eyewear. Eye protection should also be a major concern to all student athletes, especially in certain high-risk sports. Correction of vision problems with eyeglasses or contact lenses, or a program of eye exercises called vision therapy can correct many vision problems, enhance vision skills and improve sports vision performance. If visual skills are not adequate, the child may continue to perform poorly. Visual perception-the ability to organize images on a printed page into letters, words and ideas and to understand and remember what is read.Ī child who consistently underperforms a certain skill in a sport, such as always hitting the front of the rim in basketball or swinging late at a pitched ball in baseball, may have a vision problem.
Eye-hand coordination-the ability to use visual information to monitor and direct the hands when drawing a picture or trying to hit a ball.Eye teaming-the ability to coordinate and use both eyes together when moving the eyes along a printed page, and to be able to judge distances and see depth for classwork and sports.Eye tracking-the ability to keep the eyes on target when looking from one object to another, moving the eyes along a printed page or following a moving object like a thrown ball.Eye focusing allows the child to easily maintain clear vision over time like when reading a book or writing a report. Eye Focusing-the ability to quickly and accurately maintain clear vision as the distance from objects change, such as when looking from the chalkboard to a paper on the desk and back.Visual acuity-the ability to see clearly in the distance for viewing the chalkboard, at an intermediate distance for the computer and up close for reading a book.Every child needs to have the following vision skills for effective reading and learning:
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