Open AccessEffect of Vergence/Accommodative Therapy on Reading in Children with Convergence Insufficiency: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
optometry and vision science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.779
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1538-9235
pISSN - 1040-5488
DOI - 10.1097/opx.0000000000001442
Subject(s) - convergence insufficiency , randomized controlled trial , medicine , reading comprehension , confidence interval , psychology , audiology , pediatrics , physical therapy , reading (process) , surgery , ophthalmology , political science , law
The results of this study suggest that clinicians providing vergence/accommodative therapy for the treatment of childhood convergence insufficiency should not suggest that such treatment, on average, will lead to improvements on standardized assessments of reading performance after 16 weeks of treatment.