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Can ADHD and Dyslexia REALLY Be Cured with Vision Training?

18 Sept 2025 · 0 min

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Excerpt from a YouTube video (Ben Greenfield) discussing vision training as a potential intervention for learning disorders. Speaker A states that four children currently have functional vision problems impacting learning and reports short-term measured improvements in a participant’s reading metrics over five days (words per minute from 118 to 132; comprehension from 70% to 100%; eye movements from 103 to 56). Speaker B gives a first-person account of lifelong undiagnosed dyslexia and fear of reading.

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Four children.

Monday: 118 words per minute; Friday: 132 words per minute.

From 70% accuracy to 100% accuracy.

From 103 eye movements to 56 eye movements when reading a paragraph.

Four children right now have a functional vision problem significant enough to impact learning.
I'm here basically because I've been struggling with dyslexia my whole life, largely most of my life, with it being undiagnosed and just kind of being this mysterious enigma. And I just remember we all had to read a page and it was coming around to me and just being like, absolute dread terror. Like just tons of fear around reading. And that's largely been my entire life.
Monday, you read 118 words per minute. On Friday, 132 words per minute. So a little bit of an improvement there, but that's not really the cool part. Comprehension went from 70% accuracy to 100, 103 eye movements to 56. Less is better. The eye movements to read a paragraph in five days prove comprehension and speed.