The booklet provides an overview on vision therapy to aid writers, editors, and broadcasters help parents, teachers, older adults, and all consumers learn more about vision therapy. Following a description of vision therapy or vision training, information is provided on how and why vision therapy works. Additional sections address providers of…

The encoding processes of poor and average readers were compared in a short-term memory task. Since poor readers have difficulty in integrating audiovisual input, it was hypothesized that this pattern may be due to inadequate acoustic encoding. The results did not support the hypothesis. (Author/CS)

Evaluated was retinal functioning of 15 4-year-old children who had received phototherapy for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia (jaundice). (DB)

This paper reports an investigation of the effectiveness of vision screening by the Modified Telebinocular Technique (MTT) when compared to the more cumbersome but highly valid and reliable Modified Clinical Technique (MCT). Data on 102 school children were collected using the MCT. The same children were then given the MTT to establish comparison…

Presented is an abstract of a lecture-workshop presentation on vision problems and their relation to learning, working, living, and health. Areas covered by the author in his lecture are outlined as including the essential tests of the primary vision examination; the value of testing depth perception at the reading distance; the testing and care…

GRADES OR AGES: Grade six. SUBJECT MATTER: Health education. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: This guide is bound in a spiral binder and illustrated with drawings. It is divided into five "strands" or topics: Physical Health; Sociological Health Problems; Mental Health; Environmental and Community Health; and Education for Survival. There is…

Describes an experiment revealing a visual latency effect produced by the wearing of sunglasses. (SL)

Presented a number of evaluative instruments to determine if remedial students had problems which prevented them from learning and to determine if they had learning disabilities which could not be overcome simply by increased interest in education or an improved attitude toward it. (Author/RK)

Describes an all-volunteer preschool screening program to identify problems of speech and motor control.'' (Author)

The brain-injured group performed with greater error scores and required more time to complete the tasks; although the brain-injured group took more time on the binocular tasks, their performance scores were similar to the nonbrain-injured group scores. (Author)

Using visual and auditory memory sequencing tests with 140 children aged 8-10, this study aimed to investigate the assumption that visual and auditory memory are important component functions in children's spelling. (Author)