Effects of Training of Eye Fixation Skills on the Reading Fluency of Children with Oculomotor Dysfunction

The study was carried out to determine the effect of training of eyefixation skills on the reading fluency of Children with OculomotorDysfunction. Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design was used in thisexperimental study. All the school going children having OculomotorDysfunction and poor reading skills between the ages5-14 years atprimary level were population of this study. King Devick Pro Readingtest was run on the children with poor reading abilities to diagnose theChildren with Oculomotor Dysfunction. Children having percentile rankbelow 15 or below average accuracy on King Devick Pro Reading testwere diagnosed as Children with Oculomotor Dysfunction. 20 Childrenwith Oculomotor Dysfunction were selected from a pool of 50 Childrenwith Oculomotor Dysfunction using random sampling technique. Twocohorts (experimental and control) having 10 Children with OculomotorDysfunction each, were used in the study. The level of Visual FixationSkills of the children of both of the groups was analyzed sing NovaSoutheastern University College of Optometry Oculomotor Test. Thesubjects of experimental group underwent training of manual andcomputer animated visual fixation skills 50 minutes per day for 7 days aweek for 6 weeks. Words Correct Per Minute Method was used todetermine the reading fluency of both of the groups before and after theintervention from selected paragraphs of Punjab Textbook Boar