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  • Title: Effects of ocular functioning and time upon reading proficiency.
    Author: Stolzberg ME, Ritty JM, Cohen A, Lieberman S.
    Journal: J Am Optom Assoc; 1989 Feb; 60(2):122-6. PubMed ID: 2703653.
    Abstract:
    We hypothesize that children with fusional and/or accommodative abnormalities will tend to tire more readily when reading than will children with normal vision and that, consequently, they will show a greater decrement in reading proficiency over time on a task requiring reading. Forty-five subjects who passed the New York State Optometric Association Vision Screening Battery and 32 who failed were given a "maze" reading test developed for the study. The abnormal vision group made significantly more errors than did the normal vision group on the reading test. The abnormal vision group also made progressively more errors than did the normal vision group at the end of each segment of the reading test. The differences, however, were not statistically significant. While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
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