To help you learn more about visual/functional skills and their importance we have included some resources.

• About Your Fundamental Reading Process (FRP) as background for an understanding of visual and perceptual skills and reading behavior.
  Fundamental Reading Process.pdf
  
  
• Taylor's Functional Readiness Inventory - for both teacher/parent and students to explore the possible need for visual/functional skill development.
  Student Inventory
  
  
• Visagraph™ III Eye Movement Recording System is used by thousands of schools and vision specialists to assess the Fundamental Reading Process. The College of Optometrists in Vision Development (COVD) supports the objective evaluation of the eye movements involved in reading by instrumentation such as the Taylor Visagraph. Students showing signs or symptoms of a vision problem should be evaluated by a behavioral/devopmental optometrist. When indicated, optometric vision therapy improves a child's ability to benefit from educational intervention.
  http://www.readingplus.com/assessment/visagraph.html
  
  
• COVD: College of Optometrists in Vision Development
  Resource for information regarding vision therapy conditions and a listing of qualified professionals that provide vision therapy.
  www.covd.org
  
  
• PTA Resolution by the National Parents/Teachers Associates in 1999 stressing the need for good visual skills.
  www.optometrists.org/PTA_statement.html
  
  
• PAVE (Parents Active in Vision Education) site.
  www.pave-eye.com
  
  
• Vision and Reading an article by Dr. Don Getz explaining the relationship of vision and success in school by a vision specialist from the “Optometrist Network.”
  www.children-special-needs.org
  
  
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  www.bernell.com