How to Improve Visual Tracking

1. Read using your finger

While reading, using your finger to glide over the text supports the eyes and allows them to track
more fluidly. It also reduces the cognitive burden, allowing the brain to devote more resources to
reading comprehension.

2. Ball on a screen

Visual tracking can be singularly developed by observing a ball go around the screen. Because the
brain is asked to accomplish only one thing at a time, this approach focuses directly on the problem.
These vision functions can eventually become automatic, allowing them to be performed
subconsciously.

3. Play (or watch) ping pong

The back and forth of the ball in a game of ping pong is a great visual tracking exercise. Aside from
playing, even watching others play can be an even better idea. To enhance visual tracking, keep an
eye on the ball and track your gaze back and forth across the table.

4. The metronome

Place the metronome or pendulum about 1-2 feet away from your face, keep your head still, and
follow the swinging metronome or pendulum with your eyes.

5. Laser pointers

A laser pointer projected on a wall in a dark room with the red dot sweeping across the wall can be
followed by someone with weak visual tracking. Make sure to move the laser in all directions: up,
down, left, right, and diagonally, and increase the speed as you go along.
 6. Echo reading

Echo reading is when someone reads a passage out loud to someone with visual tracking
difficulties, and they track the words on the page as they are spoken. This allows the brain and eyes
to work in tandem and forms a subconscious reflex

7. First & last word

From the top of the page to the bottom, repeat the pattern of reading the first to last word in each
line. Time yourself and see how fast you can go. Simply read the first and last letter on each line if
reading words is difficult. Eye-tracking exercises like these help to improve processing speed and
accuracy. It is also possible to develop eye-hand coordination by using one’s finger throughout the
process

8. Peripheral tracking activity

Arrange a few bottle caps of different colours on the table. Place another small object of a specific
colour in the center of the arrangement, and ask them to find the bottle cap of the same colour
without turning their head or eyes. Keep replacing the colour in the middle until all bottle caps are
located. This will help boost peripheral vision, an important aspect of visual tracking.

Bonus: Add a level of difficulty to this task by writing letters or numbers on the bottle caps and asking
them to recognize them in the right order.

9. Apps like Voice Dream Reader

This app highlights words as they are read aloud. Read along with simulated voice options or turn off
the audio and read the text yourself. Change the speed of your reading so that words are highlighted
as you read. Apps like these allow the reader to form a correlation between reading with visual eye
tracking.

The answer to the question of ‘how to track visual tracking?’ is fundamental to our ability to absorb
external information and respond to our environment. Eye-tracking deficiencies are complicated; for
example, a person with eye-tracking abnormalities may or may not have double vision or
convergence insufficiency.

To measure and assess eye movements, our professionals at Prasad Netralaya, one of the best eye
hospitals in Karnataka, use age and grade-normed standardized testing, advanced visual tracking
exercises, and specialized equipment. If you or your child exhibit symptoms associated with visual
eye tracking deficits,