Visual skills of poor readers in high school

Optometry

Volumn 78, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 542-549

  Grisham, David ^a,b   Powers, Maureen ^b,c   Riles, Phillip ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Gemstone Educational Management LLC

^c Gemstone Foundation Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Binocular vision; Convergence insufficiency; Reading; Visual skills

Indexed keywords

ACCOMMODATION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SCHOOL; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL DISORDER;

ACCOMMODATION, OCULAR; ADOLESCENT; CONVERGENCE, OCULAR; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SCHOOLS; VISION DISORDERS; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 34548836574     PISSN: 15291839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.optm.2007.02.017     Document Type: Article

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