WAYS TO ENHANCE VISUAL TRACKING AT HOME

 Visual tracking is the capacity to track things by moving one’s eyes right to left (or left to right, up and down, and in circular motions) or to focus on an item as it travels across the visual field.

Visual tracking occurs without our knowledge. Our eyes are continually moving, monitoring, scanning, focusing, chasing, and adjusting us without our understanding since the brain and its activities are so amazing. According to the usual development of visual processing, children begin to visually track things around the age of five.

Many people have difficulty learning how to build visual tracking, which leads to bigger problems while completing everyday tasks, and day-to-day chores. This begs the question, is it really feasible to improve one’s eyesight? The good news is that visual tracking in youngsters may be significantly enhanced by strengthening eye muscles with specific visual tracking activities.

Let’s look at nine of them:

Reading With Your Finger

Using your finger to glide over the text while reading aids the eyes and allows them to track more freely. It also lessens cognitive load, freeing up more brain resources for reading comprehension.

Playing or Watching Ping Pong

Ping pong is one of the most wonderful visual tracking activities since the ball bounces back and forth. Aside from playing, watching others play might be a better option. Keep an eye on the ball and move your attention back and forth across the table to improve visual tracking.

Watching a Ball on a Screen

Visual tracking may be developed by watching a ball move around the screen. Because the brain is only expected to do one item at a time, this strategy concentrates on the problem directly. These visual functions can become automatic with time, allowing them to be done subconsciously.

Laser Pointing Devices

Someone with poor visual tracking can be tracked by a laser pointer projected on a wall in a dark environment, with the red dot sweeping over the wall. Make sure to swing the laser in all positions: up, down, left, right, and diagonally, and gradually raise the pace.

Follow a Metronome

Keep your head motionless, and follow the swinging metronome or pendulum with your eyes after placing the metronome or pendulum about 1-2 feet away from your face.

The First and Final Word

Repeat the pattern of reading the first to the final word of each line from top to bottom, starting at the top of the page. Test your speed by timing yourself. If reading words is difficult, simply read the first and final letter of each line. These eye tracking exercises assist to enhance processing speed and accuracy. By utilizing one’s finger throughout the procedure, one can also improve eye-hand coordination.

Reading Echoes

When someone reads a piece aloud to someone who has visual tracking issues, they track all of the words on the page as they are uttered. This permits the brain and eyes to collaborate and creates a subconscious reaction.

Peripheral Tracking Activity

Arrange a few different coloured bottle caps on the table. Place another little object in the centre of the arrangement and ask the kids to find the bottle cap of the same colour without turning their heads or gaze. Replace the colour in the centre until all bottle caps have been found. This will aid in the enhancement of peripheral vision, which is an important part of visual tracking.

You can make this assignment a little tough by printing letters or numbers on the bottle caps and asking them to recognise them in the correct sequence.

Voice Dream Reader and More Similar Apps

When a word is read aloud, this app highlights it. Read along with simulated speech choices, or turn down the audio and read the text alone. Change the pace of your reading such that words are highlighted when you read. Apps like this enable the reader to establish a link between reading and visual eye tracking.

The solution to visual tracking issues is critical to our capacity to absorb external information and adapt to our surroundings. A person with eye tracking deficits may or may not exhibit double vision or convergence insufficiency.

Shree Eye Care, one of the top eye hospitals in Dehradun, employs age and grade-normed standardised testing, sophisticated visual tracking activities, and specialised technology to monitor and quantify eye movements.

If you or your kid display the signs of visual eye tracking impairments, please contact us at +91-94101 57609 or +91-9758773399 or +91-9758772299 to book a quick appointment.