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Vision, Reading Difficulties, and Visual Stress

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Authors:
  1. Arnold J. Wilkins

    1. Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK

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  2. Bruce J. W. Evans

    1. Director of Research, Institute of Optometry, London, UK

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  • ​Examines how vision disorders can be a factor in reading difficulties
  • Written in a clear and concise format for professionals across disciplines
  • Highlights how interventions can be applied in clinical and educational settings

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  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
    Pages C1-C1

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 341-347
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About this book

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, 2nd 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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • 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

About the authors

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Vision, Reading Difficulties, and Visual Stress

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

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03930-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-03929-4Published: 03 August 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-03932-4Published: 04 August 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-03930-0Published: 02 August 2022

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 347

  • Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 40 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Ophthalmology, Pedagogic Psychology

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