With one in five children having an undetected vision problem, being aware of the health of your child’s vision should be of paramount focus. As determining whether young children have vision issues can be difficult, a visit to an optometrist will ensure your young ones ocular development is progressing naturally.
How to tell if my child has good vision
Sometimes it can be difficult to tell how well your child sees, especially when they are very young. Children often assume that how they see is normal. A visit to the optometrist will check that their eyes are healthy and vision is developing as expected.
When should children have an eye test
We recommend that all children have a full eye examination with an optometrist before starting school. How easily a child can see with their long-distance and close vision schoolwork can influence how well they learn through their visual system.
At this examination, emphasis is on testing visual efficiency skills and visual analysis skills so that poor vision is not a stumbling block to first of all “learning to read” and later “reading to learn”.
Appointments first thing in the morning are preferred for primary school-age children so that their performance in the eye test is not reduced because they are tired after a full day at school.