Just wondering if anybody has any experience of this. My DS (8 and in year 4) is doing well at school, consistently top in Maths and in areas where he can rely on verbal instructions. His reading however is very difficult. Individual words he reads well and his vocabulary is good but he is incredibibly slow at reading lines of text and complains often that he loses his place and that the words move about. He was assessed last year for special needs as the school felt that there was a sufficient gap between his verbal skills and his written/reading skills to be concerned however the assessment came back as appropriate reading skills for his age. As time has gone on his reading has not improved at all and it has been suggested to us that he possibly has problems tracking his eyes together. Nobody however seems to know what, if anything, we can do about this and I wondered if anybody had any experience of this? I have been ignoring this in the hope that it will resolve itself but I am becoming more and more concerned that it is going to hinder his development generally and that I ought if I can to try to do something about it.
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