Did the National Reading Panel examine vision-related problems of children as a possible cause of reading difficulties?
In the initial review and screening of the literature on reading instruction, the NRP identified studies that specifically measured reading as an outcome. The NRP applied the same rigorous methodological criteria to all studies that included reading outcomes. The NRP charge was to examine effectiveness of instructional methods for teaching reading. Studies of vision training not explicitly used as reading instruction methods were not considered. Research involving vision was not simply excluded from consideration by the NRP. Studies on teaching reading, either to visually impaired or to non-impaired readers, and that also met the NRP’s methodological criteria, would have been included in the NRP’s analysis. However, there were no studies involving oculomotor interventions that satisfied these criteria.
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