CHILDRENS VISION ASSESSMENT

Vision is one of the most important senses for learning and your child's development. 

Children's Visual Skills

Vision is more than just reading an eye chart. Children use many different visual skills for playing, moving around, reading, drawing, using computers and playing sports.  

An Eyewear Architects paediatric eye test will assess the development of your child's visual skills. The visual skills examination includes:

Vision

Vision is the measurement of what we can see, both close and far away. This can also be measured objectively on younger kids before they can name shapes and numbers. 

Eye Movement 

Our eyes need to aim wherever we want to look. As we grow our eyes learn to work as a team by pointing at the same location at the same time. 

Eye Tracking

Eye Tracking is the ability to move our eyes across a page or screen smoothly when reading. Poor tracking may show up as frequently losing place when reading or copying. Delayed development of this skill makes learning to read challenging.

Binocular Vision and Stereopsis

Stereopsis is two-eyes depth perception, and helps us to judge distance, learns to move confidently and cooperatively and is important for ball sports.

Focusing Skills

Our eyes change focus when they aim close or far by adjusting the lens shape in the eye. Our focusing system can become fatigued from excessive close work. 

Peripheral Vision (side vision)

The ability to see out to the side, while looking ahead. This is important to move around confidently and avoid obstacles. 

Colour Vision

1 in 12 males and 1 in 400 females have a genetic colour vision defect. Colour is often used as a learning tool, and an undetected colour defect can create confusion for a child. A colour vision defect may also affect future job selection.