title: Specific reading difficulty or decompensated heterophoria?
abstract: This case report illustrates the importance of both an educational psychology and optometric assessment in the management of reading difficulties. Only after these have been concluded can the aetiology of the reading difficulty be determined and the correct course of treatment instigated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthoptics, Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, UK.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Rundstrom
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Eperjesi
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005099:Exotropia / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009907:Optometry; D009988:Orthoptics; D011588:Psychology, Educational