Ocular motor dysfunction

• Poor saccadic, pursuit, and fixation difficulties
• Children who have difficulties with reading, such as loss of place, skipping lines, skipping words and slow inefficient reading
• Have tech do DEM (Developmental Eye Movement test) before patient is seen

Home activities to improve ocular motor function (do 3-5 of these daily):

• put jigsaw puzzles together
• solve simple mazes, crossword puzzles, or word searches
• fill-in all of the "O's on a newspaper page
• use highlighter or index card while reading to keep place
• Hart Chart: read letters in first column then 10th column, then 2nd to 9th, etc.
• have child sit at front of class so there are less distractions for copying off the board
• http://homevisiontherapy.com or http://www.bernell.com