We have searched around for training for our school personnel and can't find any.  In town, local optometrists offer visual training for quite a fee.  I used to work for an opthalmologist, who pooh-poohed the visual training, and I can't see that anything optometrists do ( the assistants do it) is anything we can't do with some training.  Convergence insufficiency is the obvious choice for working with students, but as you mentioned, visual overload and shifting fixation are also problem areas we see in our school, --with evidence we can put out in terms of work samples and observations-- that we could use training in and address through programs that may take only ten minutes a day.  So, to get back to the real question, do you know of any training around that is available?  Some programs, such as Balametrics, inadvertently include some exercises that are helpful, I believe, but something "bonafide" ??

Hi Margaret,

 I just saw your message now about visual training at school. This was done in some school districts some years ago - the problem is qualification to do it, and now the school have even fewer resources for training. It is certainly a complex issues though... what is medical, what is educationa, and what is a little bit of both? Certainly more training about the physiological challenges that children have in the activities would be helpful - (visual overload, shifting fixation,etc.) - because children may be blamed for poor work effort although it may be physiological impossible for them!

I teach K-12 reading:  the whole nine yards.  MAT and MATESOL. Just got Special Ed endorsement.  Hmmm --so much school and so much to learn yet.  

 I work with a really great team.  They have good ideas if you want me to ask them anything.