Classroom behavior may indicate the possibility of poor vision. Your teachers will be an excellent source of information about students who may need to be tested. We highly recommend the following students with the following behaviors be referred for vision screening:
- Frequently complain of headaches
- Complaints of blurred or double vision
- Cross-eyed or have one eye turn in or out
- Short attention spans during reading or other activities
- Holds head close to papers when reading or working
- Head turns as student reads across the page
- Squints, covers one eye to read
- Frequently loses place when reading, may unknowingly jump to another line
- Skips words when reading, confuses similar words
- Often uses finger to keep place
- Difficult remembering what was read
- Poor eye-hand coordination
- Writes up or down hill on paper
- Misaligns numbers in columns
- Discipline difficulties and/or low achievement
