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10/06/2025

WHAT IS VISUAL TRACKING?

You’ve probably seen it before: The child who struggles with letter reversals...the child who has challenges in navigating obstacles when playing…the child who labors with reading and commonly skips words or lines of words when reading.

These are all signs of a visual tracking problem. There are many more, in fact. The thing is, visual tracking is a part of almost everything we do!

Before we talk more about what visual tracking looks like and other common signs of visual tracking problems, let’s discuss what exactly visual tracking is.

DEFINITION OF VISUAL TRACKING

Visual tracking is a visual processing skill that occurs when the eyes focus on an object as it moves across the field of vision. Visual tracking occurs with movement of the eyes to follow a moving object and not movement of the head. The eyes have the ability to track an object in the vertical and horizontal, diagonal, and circular planes.

There should also be an ability to track across the midline of the eyes and with smooth pursuit of the object. Visual tracking requires several skills in order to efficiently occur. These include oculomotor control abilities, including visual fixation, saccadic eye movement, smooth pursuit eye movements, along with convergence, and visual spatial attention.

What is visual tracking: https://www.theottoolbox.com/what-is-visual-tracking/
Visual tracking strategies: https://www.theottoolbox.com/visual-tracking-tips-and-tools-for/

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Visual tracking plays a big role in reading, writing, and classroom learning. Yet, it’s one of those skills that often goes unnoticed until challenges appear.

When a child struggles with tracking, you might see red flags like losing their place when reading, skipping words or lines, mixing up similar words, reversing letters, or having trouble following written directions.

These difficulties are often tied to how the eyes work together to move across a page and process visual information.

👉 Learn more about visual tracking skills and how to support them here: https://www.theottoolbox.com/visual-tracking/
👉 Discover activities to help improve tracking here: https://www.theottoolbox.com/visual-tracking-tips-and-tools-for/

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