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If your kid is having trouble reading, you should get their hearing tested Grade 1 student Alicia rushed through her work, handed the incorrectly-completed sheet in to her teacher, then promptly went over to another student and poured water on her head. It was just one of the many incidents that prompted a phone call home to her mom, Nadine Pyatt, last year. Alicia was also behind her grade level in reading, had difficulty printing and spelling, and was extremely clumsy, constantly falling on the first step in their staircase at home. Her teachers complained she had a short attention span. ?I thought for sure we were dealing with ADHD,? says her mom. So sure, in fact, that she had booked an appointment with Alicia?s doctor to discuss putting her on medication. But a serendipitous visit to their family optometrist put the Pyatt?s on another course. He suggested she see another optometrist in his clinic who was doing something called vision therapy (or neuro-visual therapy). That optometrist was Kiran Ramesh, who explains vision therapy can help many kids whose visual system is not performing as it should be. ?Vision therapy is a set of exercises that we do to help to retrain the brain and the eyes on how to communicate better,? she says. Ramesh s...