Remedial education is a vital part of the learning journey of students with special needs. While conventional tools for improving skills such as reading and writing have proven effective, a new tool based on exercising the eye could help students with special needs make even bigger strides in the classroom. Eye-tracking training challenges users to trace the path of visual objects with their eyes. The mental concentration required has been shown to improve attention and inhibitory control in students with ADHD and now, more generally, in a group of students with special education needs. Over 8 months, 53 Hong Kong students (grades 2-5) with learning difficulties received either conventional training in reading or writing or eye-tracking training. Test scores before and after training revealed that students in the eye-tracking group were able to learn and retain more vocabulary words than students in the conventional training group and could recall more learned words. While more studies that involve more students and test for long-term retention are needed, the findings are promising. Incorporating eye-tracking training in the classroom could be a powerful way to improve learning outcomes among students with special educational needs.