Dyslexia and Reading Problems are common in people with ADHD.
A study performed recently at the Mayo clinic and published in the Journal Pediatrics reported that 51% of boys and 47% of girls with a diagnosis of ADHD also had dyslexia or a reading problem.
This compared to only 14.
5% of boys and 8% of girls without and ADHD diagnosis.
We do not have the exact figures on the rate of dyslexia in children with Predominantly Inattentive ADHD vs.
Combined type ADHD but we have no reason to believe, based on other research studies, that the visual processing skills on children with Inattentive ADHD is any better than the visual processing of the other subtype.
Visual processing training can help improve visual attention skills and can also help improve ADHD and reading disorders.
Some researchers have proposed that problems with visual processing, auditory processing and working memory may be the core problems in adults and children with the Inattentive type of ADHD.
The improvement of visual procession skills by computerized training has been documented in multiple studies.
These computerized programs have, in the past, been expensive and required a visit to an Ophthomologist or Developmental Optometrist office.
Now parents of children with ADHD and reading problems and adults with reading problems can receive visual processing training at home and for free.
A company out of England has a free product called AgileEye which is designed to improve reading problems, dyslexia and the visual problems seen in ADHD.
The science behind the benefits of the AgileEye program is sound and the program is easy to complete.
Each session is 12 minutes long and there are only a total of 12 sessions.
The online task is to keep the little car in the center of the road but this is not easy as the road and the car are moving as you perform the task.
There are other software programs out there intended to improve visual processing that are not designed to help ADHD, dyslexia or reading problems and it is possible that they might help with reading problems as well though they have not been specifically studied for this purpose.
You can find AgileEye by typing that word in your computer browser.
You can also find it in the section called "Free ADHD Stuff" at the Primarily Inattentive ADD webpage.
Kids and adults with ADHD are prone to have Dyslexia and Reading Problems.
Using a free tool such as the CogniBeat AgileEye tool may improve the visual processing skills that are deficient in people with ADHD, Dyslexia and reading problems.