Is there a relationship between faulty eye teaming and poor reading?
A. I feel that there is an absolute direct relationship between the child’s ability to team his two eyes together and his ability to learn to read successfully. A child is born with two eyes, but he must learn to team those eyes together. Most children learn to do this quite well, but there are others who do not adequately develop this skill. I would like to discuss the problem that a child who has developed an exophoria might encounter during the task of reading. There has been some controversy over the definition of exophoria. Some define exophoria as a tendency of the eyes to deviate outwards. Others define exophoria as that visual situation where the eyes converge beyond the plane of regard for accommodation. Regardless of the definition for exophoria, the same situation exists during the act of reading. The visual demand while reading is for the eyes to point inward at the printed page. Since the relaxed posture for the exophore is for the eyes to go outward, it means that he must
