Children that have problems with focusing, reading, teaming their eyes or hand-eye coordination will often experience frustration, and may exhibit behavioral problems as well. Often they don’t know that the vision they are experiencing is abnormal, so they aren’t able to express that they need help.
A functional eye exam includes tests performed in a routine eye exam, plus specific additional tests for detecting learning-related vision problems.
Extra tests would include accommodation, binocular vision, and ocular motility testing. In addition to these, depending on the type of problems your child is displaying, we may recommend other testing, either in our office or with a vision development specialist.
Are only able to detect the possibility of nearsightedness. Many kids up to their teen years are actually farsighted and depending on the amount, may need glasses for close up work. Often, kids get headaches after reading, doing homework, playing video games, or have trouble refocusing when looking far away after close work.
To obtain an accurate prescription for a child that is not nearsighted is by a cycloplegic examination, which relaxes the child's focusing ability and allows Dr. Miller to obtain the true prescription of your child's eyes.
- Eyes crossed in or turned out
- A "white" reflex in photos
- Disinterest or headaches while reading or during close-up work
- Rubbing of eyes
- Squinting
- Head tilt
- Covering of one eye to see
Do your child’s eyes move across the page in a book smoothly and accurately?
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?
Are your child’s eyes working together as a focus unit – do they come together for proper eye alignment for reading?
