Dyslexia and eye tracking problems--correlation or cause?

This has a great resource that may help with eye tracking problems (it's at the bottom of the article).

Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner): Dyslexia and eye tracking problems--correlation or cause? Guest post by Joel Schneider

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