Key Guidance:

• Symptoms that SpLD practitioners might think of as indicating ‘visual stress’ are often the result of uncorrected refractive error and/or ocular motor and binocular vision anomalies. SpLD practitioners, specialist teachers, and psychologists cannot assess for these.

• Some visual difficulties are caused by disease so, for safe practice, visual discomfort and disturbance MUST be investigated by a vision professional qualified to identify and manage possible pathological and other causes of difficulty.