Pediatric Eye Exams

Children often do not recognize problems with vision and do not have the vocabulary to report their issues.

For this reason, seeing a pediatric optometrist for regular comprehensive eye exams is critical for identifying issues like nearsightedness and farsightedness. A comprehensive exam will include an examination of your child’s ability to see at various distances. Next, our eye doctor will take a look at your child’s binocular coordination, which is the eyes’ ability to work together.

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Even if your child has “20/20” eyesight he may be experiencing vision problems. These problems may be causing learning problems and substandard educational results. Studies demonstrate clearly that one out of four school-age children suffer from at least one learning related vision problem. One of the most prevalent eye conditions in children is myopia. If we detect myopia in your child’s eyes, we can provide myopia control to help make sure that your child can see clearly and to help slow the progression of the eye condition.

These exams aim to identify any eye disorders that may require treatment, address any issues with eye function, or correct any errors through the use of glasses. For children who’re capable of using them safely, contact lenses can also be an option.

Signs Your Child May Need Eyecare

These signs could indicate that your child needs one’s vision to be corrected:

  • Frequent headaches
  • Short attention span
  • Difficulty reading without a guide on paper
  • Eyes not moving with each other
  • Squinting to see distant objects

Learning-Related Vision Problems

Some of the most common roadmap symptoms of learning-related vision disorders are:

  • Double vision, particularly during or after reading
  • Poor handwriting
  • Hyperactivity or recklessness during class
  • Word and letter reversals
  • Easily distracted during reading
  • Poor reading comprehension
  • Poor overall school performance
  • Circumventing of reading
  • Blurred vision, especially after reading or working closely
  • Eye Strain or frequent headaches

Questions Related to Eyesight and Learning

Eye movement skills: Do your child’s eyes move across the page in a book smoothly and accurately?

Eye focusing abilities: Does your child change focus from near to far and back again -between reading text from a far-away white or black-board and writing on paper?

Eye teaming skills: Are your child’s eyes working together as a focus unit -do they come together for proper eye alignment for reading?

Binocular vision skills: Are your child’s eyes blending visual images from both eyes into a single, three-dimensional image?

Visual perceptual skills: Does your child identify and understand what s/he sees, co-relating importance, connecting with previous visual memorized information?

Visual-motor integration: Is the quality of your child’s eye-hand coordination balanced? Visual-motor integration is important not only for legible handwriting and the ability to efficiently copy written information from a book or board but also for sports. Deficiencies in any of these can be detrimental to a child’s learning ability and / or school performance.