Vision, Reading Difficulties, and Visual Stress

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Arnold J. Wilkins, Bruce J. W. Evans

   Pages 1-17

3. Refractive Errors and Ocular Health

   • Arnold J. Wilkins, Bruce J. W. Evans

   Pages 19-36

4. Binocular Vision and Accommodative Anomalies

   • Arnold J. Wilkins, Bruce J. W. Evans

   Pages 37-72

5. Eye Movements, Dominant Eye, Behavioral Optometry, Balance and Cerebro-Vestibular Treatments

   • Arnold J. Wilkins, Bruce J. W. Evans

   Pages 73-98

6. The Magnocellular-Dorsal (M-D) Deficit and Associated Theories

   • Arnold J. Wilkins, Bruce J. W. Evans

   Pages 99-141

7. Coloured Filters—Early Studies

   • Arnold J. Wilkins, Bruce J. W. Evans

   Pages 143-168

8. Do Coloured Filters Work?

   • Arnold J. Wilkins, Bruce J. W. Evans

   Pages 169-193

9. How do Coloured Filters Work?

   • Arnold J. Wilkins, Bruce J. W. Evans

   Pages 195-224

10. Coloured Filters: Clinical Tools

    • Arnold J. Wilkins, Bruce J. W. Evans

    Pages 225-251

11. Clinical Protocol

    • Arnold J. Wilkins, Bruce J. W. Evans

    Pages 253-291

12. Other Potential Uses of Coloured Filters in the Clinic

    • Arnold J. Wilkins, Bruce J. W. Evans

    Pages 293-321

13. Research Priorities and Practice

    • Arnold J. Wilkins, Bruce J. W. Evans

    Pages 323-340

14. Correction to: Vision, Reading Difficulties, and Visual Stress

    • Arnold J. Wilkins, Bruce J. W. Evans

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15. Back Matter

    Pages 341-347

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This book provides an overview of the research surrounding the relevance of visual factors for those who struggle with reading. Visual interventions that have been advocated as helping with reading include spectacles that simply correct refractive errors (e.g., long-sightedness), coloured overlays (sheets placed on the page) and coloured lenses, vision therapy, and computer games. This book explains the rationale behind these interventions and discusses the evidence supporting them. Clear advice is given in plain English to those wondering if these interventions will be helpful.

Vision, Reading Difficulties, and Visual Stress, 2^nd Edition draws together disparate research findings in a range of neurological disorders where vision is compromised by cortical hyperexcitability. Optometrists, orthoptists, ophthalmologists, educational psychologists, teachers, and vision scientists will find this book to be an interesting resource as well as students in these disciplines and parents of children who struggle with reading.

• Dyslexia
• Asthenopia
• Interventions
• Coloured Filters
• Cortical Hyperexcitability

• Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK

  Arnold J. Wilkins

• Director of Research, Institute of Optometry, London, UK

  Bruce J. W. Evans

Professor Wilkins undertook his PhD from Sussex University, spent two years post doctorate at the Montreal Neurological Institute and then joined the MRC Applied Psychology Unit in Cambridge until he took a chair at the University of Essex in 1997 and become Emeritus Professor in 2015. 

Professor Evans undertook a PhD from Aston University and for the last 30 years has been Director of Research at the Institute of Optometry. He is also Visiting Professor to City, University of London and to London South Bank University.

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