“Why does my child say the ‘words are dancing’ or moving on the page?”

If your child tells you the letters are wiggling, “jumping,” or that the white paper is “too bright,” they aren’t just being imaginative. This is a classic sign of Visual Stress. To some children, the high contrast of black text on white paper causes the brain to become over-stimulated, making the words appear to move, blur, or even disappear.