Does utilizing vision therapy such as convergent therapy, saccades, pencil push-ups help to increase visual attention to task for individuals with ADHD?
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Vision therapy helps with vision related problem which if present may have effect on a child’s ability to do sustained near work. It however, does nothing to their attention deficit.