As you know, Natalie was diagnosed with vision convergence issues this past summer. We’ve been working on doing eye exercises daily, although I’ll admit we probably never succeeded in doing them that often. In her prime (for about 6 weeks this fall), Natalie was doing eye exercises 3-4 times a week, sometimes twice a day.
The good news is that Natalie’s reading comprehension went from 85% in September to 96% in November, just six weeks later. But because this can be a life-long weakness, I tried to come up with some games that help eyes work as a team for Natalie to work into her every day play time. I’ll add to this as I can, but for now here’s the start on “The List”:
Games for Every Day:
- Mazes
- Word Searches
- Chess
- Checkers
- Object searches or “I Spy” books
- Battleship
- Memory
- Badgammon
- Tennis
- Table Tennis
- Ball connected to paddle
- Dominoes
- Sequence/Sequence Jr.
(basically anything that makes them look back and forth while concentrating on objects. )
Games for the computer:
Mystery Search Game: (Warning: this site is for all ages. I can’t account for the ads that may appear. I plan to supervise Natalie on this page.)
http://www.addictinggames.com/puzzle-games/mysterycasefileshuntsville.jsp
Hightlights Magazine Online – Including object search puzzles and matching games:
http://www.highlightskids.com/
(c) 2016 Leighann Marquiss
Comments (1)
This post came up when I searched for eye exercise for kids, and I really appreciate it! My daughter was just diagnosed with slight vision convergence issues as well and we haven’t decided if we can afford to put her in vision therapy yet or not, so I’m learning all I can from the internet. All that to say, Thanks for your post! I’m going to start incorporating these into our day 🙂