FAQ

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Signs can include skipping lines, frequently losing their place, rereading text, avoiding reading, eye fatigue, headaches, becoming tired or frustrated during reading, or reporting that words seem difficult to follow. A Reading Vision Assessment can help identify whether eye-movement patterns may be contributing to the reading struggles.

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Reading requires the eyes to work together and move smoothly across a page. When eye tracking or eye teaming is difficult, a reader may skip lines, lose their place, reread words, experience visual fatigue, or find reading unusually difficult. Eyes Up Reading works on these visual skills alongside reading instruction.

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The Reading Vision Assessment is a 15-minute observational Assessment with Dr. McMurray and/or a Reading Vision Assessment Specialist, conducted online through Zoom. They observe eye-movement patterns while you or your child reads. The assessment is followed by a consultation with a Certified Reading Vision Tutor to discuss the findings and possible next steps.

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No. Clinical Vision Therapy primarily focuses on medical-level eye disorders, without addressing the reading element. Treatment often includes surgery and/or particular eye-exercises specific to the diagnosed eye-disorder.

On the other hand, Eyes Up Reading's Reading Vision Tutoring curriculum helps with sub-clinical eye-movement issues that can be addressed without surgery, by using a unique set of eye exercises that coincide with the eye movements required for effective reading. The eye exercises are not particular to any specific eye-disorder.

Eyes Up Reading provides reading intervention plus support for visual skills related to reading, rather than clinical diagnosis or optometric vision therapy. Eyes Up Reading does not treat diagnosed visual disorders, strabismus, amblyopia, dyslexia, ADHD, or learning disabilities. When a medical-grade eye disorder is suspected, the company recommends consulting a licensed specialist.

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Reading Vision Tutoring is Eyes Up Reading’s breakthrough curriculum that combines visual-skill exercises with personalized one-on-one reading instruction. The curriculum improves eye teaming and eye tracking while simultaneously developing important reading skills such as phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

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No. Eyes Up Reading's Reading Vision Tutoring curriculum combines reading instruction with visual-skills support. In addition to working on areas such as phonics, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, the program incorporates unique exercises designed to support eye teaming and tracking. An estimated 60% of struggling readers have unaddressed vision problems. Most reading tutors are not trained to spot them and don't have the skills to address them and their impact on reading.

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The Reading Vision Assessment is just $125

Ongoing 30-minute Reading Vision Tutoring Sessions are just $59 per session for adults ages 18+, and only $39 per session for children and youth ages 4–17.

Every 6-weeks your Certified Reading Vision Tutor will conduct follow-on Reading Vision Assessments at the end of a tutoring session to track your progress, without any additional charge. When the progress Assessments find that eye movements are normal, the Tutor will schedule an Exit Assessment with a Reading Vision Assessment Specialist. The Exit Assessment is only $25. After the Exit Assessment, the client has the option to Graduate from the Reading Vision program or to stay on for continued reading-only tutoring.

In addition to the cost for the sessions, we ask all new clients to purchase a Training Kit. Included in the kit are:

1) all the custom-built tools you will need for the eye exercises,

2) a collection of custom-built buttons which serve as prizes as your child passes each level in our program,

3) a custom lanyard to hold all the award buttons,

4) printed eye-exercise instructions, and

5) a 100 eye-exercise challenge.

The Training Kit is $45. However, if there are two siblings going through our Reading Vision program at the same time, then instead of paying for 2 separate kits for $90, we can combine the two sets into the same kit for just $70.

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The standard 1:1 tutoring sessions are 30-minutes long and take place twice a week through Zoom. Tutors monitor progress and can adjust the eye exercises and reading instruction based on the student's needs.

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Progress varies from person to person. Eyes Up Reading reports that some students begin noticing changes in as little as 30 days, while many children participate for approximately six months. Adults usually see lasting results in around six to eight weeks. Individual results will vary.

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Yes. Eyes Up Reading works with children as well as teens, college students, and adults. The Reading Vision Tutoring system was actually pioneered on college students. Vision problems are life-long unless they are properly addressed. They can be hereditary or the result of physical or emotional trauma. Clients range from young children to adults in their 70s. Sometimes, grandparents act a patrons for multiple generations of their descendants to fix their visual skill issues once and for all.