Daughter Saying Words on the Page Move When Reading?

Dyslexia has nothing to do with intelligence. Both Leonarndo Di Vinci and albert Einstein were dyslexic. In out times jay Leno, Whoppi Goldberg and Tom Cruise are dyslexic. Tome Cruise to the point that he can not read at all. Someone has to read his scripts into a recorder and her listens to them until he memorizes his lines.
My oldest is dyslexic in the traditional sense and has difficulty reading however both my youngest and I are dyslexic in math.
My advice to you is to have her tested by an expert. In some kids the letters in the word don't just transpose, sometimes they appear upside down. Sometimes they transpose in a different order. Cat can become tac or act or tca or a letter could be upside down.
I know for myself that stress can cause my dyslexa to become worse. I also easily confuse left and right and if someone is giving me verbal instructions and is upset or we are running late also I will go left instead if right.
So it makes sense to me that a child taking a test or just has a bad relationship with a teacher could experience more trouble with dyslexia.

Definitively have her tested for Irlen syndrome. It has a simple fix by placing colored films over the text and somehow those pesky words stop moving. Everyone has a different color film for their specific needs. Some school districts acknowledge this and some don't - in other words some will test for it and some won't. The district my kids go to does not acknowledge this as a learning disability and does not provide services for it, but the district I work for does. I work with several students that use the films and they make a huge difference! Also, how is her handwriting? If it is hard to read, have her write in cursive, dyslexics and Irlen students write sooooo much better in cursive than print. And...if she is diagnosed with Irlen, have her write on colored paper - those colored legal pads that come in blue, yellow & pink (it doesn't have to be the color of her film). It also makes a huge difference in writing. You can do a simple test and buy each color and have her write the same sentence and see which color she writes better on. I work with this each and everyday, if you have any further questions, send me a message. Good luck!

its taken me 23 years to finally get glasses that actually 100% helped i had that same problem when i was younger and i was told i had astigmatism and my vision wasnt bad but could be better .. the glasses definatley helped but not totally it helped if i took a bookmark or piece of paper under the sentence i was reading ..my eyes got worse over the years and finally at 23 i went to the eye doctor for yet another new perscription change because i was having horrible headaches behind my eyes ..turns out i was nearsighted in one eye and farsighted in the other .. the glasses i have now are great .. definatley take her to the eye doctor.. maybe try another doctor.. i know its very hard/annoying when the doctor says is this one better or this one and youre sitting there like i have no freaking idea .. its even harder for a 12 year old ..she may not be getting the right perscription for her eyes

Yeah, could be dyslexia. That is a common description of what some dyslexic people see. Another suggestion I had was to have a different Ophthalmologist see her. I, too, had been seen regularly as a child by an eye doctor, who found nothing wrong. After YEARS of debilitating headaches, my parents finally took me to a different doctor, who found that I have a rather severe astigmatism (this is when one eye is stretched into a football shape, rather than the typical basketball shape). It can be tricky to diagnose in children, and I had a hard time reading. I had to cover one eye in order to read, my whole childhood. Anyway, they finally figured it out when I was 12. What a difference it made to have the problem corrected! Such a relief. Anyway, get a second opinion. Something isn't right. Her current doctor has missed something.

It could be dyslexia BUT you usually see other signs besides the words moving. I am dyslexic (diagonised in high school, grade school thought I was just lazy or not trying hard enough) here are many of my symptoms; never able to read, spell, write at the grade level I was in (still have huge issues with spelling and writing), frustrated with tests that delt with a lot of words, great at math BUT it takes me forever to figure the problem out, confuse letters/numbers and invert them many times when writing or saying them (I punch in our pin for the debit card wrong ALL the time), often see text moving, comprehends very little of what I read (re-reading all the time), easily distracted by sounds, diffculty putting thoughts into words (to write this it took over 20 mins), still at age 30 I confuse left/right, poor memory for facts but good long term memory of experiences & faces (but usually do not remember names). Lastly all the above increases dramatically with confusion, time pressure, emotional stress, or poor health.

I would check out this website to see if your daughter would really fall under a dyslexic catagory (I have about 30 of those symptoms, so I may by on the high end): http://www.dyslexia.com/library/symptoms.htm

It may seem that I am dumb to schools, and even when talking to me I may seem dumb but I am a great person who is friendly & talented in art & designing/painting sets :) Took me years to get over the damage of teachers telling me in grade school I was "dumb" because I could not spell, would not read infront of a class and had horrible grades (C average, D's and F's in spelling & reading).

As below said a colored film placed over the white page could really helped. I have about 5 different colors but the light blue seems to work the best for me (even the background for me typing is light blue).

I have stigmatism, corrected by glasses, and that is exactly what it is like for me to read without them. It's like my eyes can't stay put, so the words look like they are moving. When I was younger, I could still read well without glasses using a piece of paper to block the sentences below the one I was reading. But, I would think an eye doctor would test for that as many people have it.

Words moving on the page while reading is mentioned in this article, it sounds as if something is off with her vision. Has she been checked out by an optometrist rather than an opthamologist? I ask because I saw an opthamologist 3 times and she found nothing wrong, before seeing an optometrist who found my problem. Hopefully whatever is going on with your daughter can be found and remedied easily.

http://www.optometrists.org/therapists_teachers/school_nu...

When I am tired, I have that same problem. It was also a problem when I was younger. I mentioned it to the doc one time when I was in my teens and she asked some questions and had me pay attn to what I did, what was around me at the time and how I felt. That is when I noticed it is most often when I am tired (words had a party when I was in college). It is really annoying to have to read a passage 6 times to figure out what the words are. There is also an eye weakness, thus her questions, that has to do with focus that can cause this but I don;t have any detail on that.

Sometimes that happens to me as well, usually though it is caused from reading under fluorescent lights such as those found in many schools. I found that the problem stopped when the lighting changed.

There is something called Irlen syndrome (or Scotopic Sensitivity) that you may want to look into. It's a problem with visual tracking and contrast and can be helped by reading through a colored transparency or colored lenses. My oldest son was tested for this and reads best through a turquoise transparency, but he finds the transparency embarrassing and doesn't use it, which is a shame.

His visual tracking problems are that his eye jumps to the white spaces between words instead of the black print, so he sees moving "rivers" of white on the page, and that the black on white contrast is too glaring, so he likes to read at an angle and in dim light.

Our school had a learning specialist who was certified in diagnosing this - ask at school and see if anyone is familiar with it and if he or she can test your daughter. It may be something as simple as getting a colored sheet to lay over her work as she's reading or glasses with colored lenses.

I only skimmed through the answers so don't know if someone mentioned it but could it be her sinuses? I have this problem sometimes when I read and thought it was related to my sinuses. I sometimes get slight headaches when it is going to rain. Just another thing to think about. I also have astigmatism so could be that as well. Also, another thing..could she be nervous about it? Nerves could do that also. In any case, sounds like she is a very bright girl so I'm sure the problem will be solved. Good luck!

I'd recommend a second opinion. When I'm tired, I have more trouble focusing and the words seem to wiggle or float a bit. This is a less likely scenario, but worth checking - if the vitreous in her eyes is breaking up early (this usually begins in middle age), it's a real distraction. It's like looking through clear sliced jello that's shifting around. I've learning to look *through* it, but it started in my teens and it was absolutely maddening.

Look into something called Visual Processing disorder (dyslexia is one of many possibilities under this category, but it could be something else under this category as well) and have her tested by a neurotherapist for it.

http://www.iser.com/resources/visual-processing-disorder....

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-visual-processing-disorde...

http://www.adhd.com.au/Visual_Processing_Disorders.htm