Vision Exam

As your child’s vision matures out doctors will assess visual acuity, refractive status, ocular health , eyetracking, eye focusing, and eye teaming.  Visual acuity measures how clearly a child sees objects.  Refractive status measures for nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hyperopia), and astigmatism.  The child is evaluated for any eye health problems, including active pathology or congenital anomalies.  Eye tracking is the ability of the eyes to fixate, smoothly follow and look between objects or printed. words.  Eye focusing is the ability to efficiently change and sustain focus while reading.  Eye teaming is the ability to coordinate both eyes accurately and without fatigue or excessive effort.  Accurate eye teaming is also important for accurate two-eyed depth perception.  

Reports have estimated that up to 25% of students in grades K-6 have vision-related problems, which may contribute to poor school performance.  If your student states that they are having:

• headaches
• blurred vision
• eyes hurt/tired
• motion sickness/car sickness
• dizziness
• can not see the board or if your student has failed their school vision screening