How is directional tracking related to vision and erratic eye movement when scanning text and reading?
If you have any concerns with your childs vision you need to take your child to an eye doctor. Physical vision has tremendous impacts on reading (the child must be able to see the print in order to convert print to sound). However, if your childs physical vision is fine (checked by an eye doctor) often erratic eye movement and improper tracking when reading are not the cause of reading difficulties but likely the symptoms of incorrect reading skills. Remember, reading is an artificial complex learned skill. If the child is has not learned to process print in a straight line left-to-right manner and instead is looking all over their eye movement will be erratic. Looking back and forth, trying to visually recognize whole words, hopping around looking for known parts and word families, and other incorrect reading strategies create symptoms of erratic eye movement. Proper directional tracking is closely related to eye movement. If the child learns to process all the letters in order from l
