EYE EXAMINATIONS

The standard test of eyesight at twenty feet is not sufficient as it gives no information regarding many important visual health questions, such as how much effort is needed to see clearly or singularly or whether or not vision in one eye is suppressed or less efficient.

The Snellen fractions (20/20, 20/40, 20/100, etc.) are measures of sharpness or clarity of sight (visual acuity). 20/20 eyesight just means that at a distance of twenty feet a person can clearly see the size letter on the chart that he is supposed to see at twenty feet. There's more to healthy vision than 20/20!

Our comprehensive vision exam goes beyond 20/20 to evaluate many important visual skills, such as:

VISUAL ACUITY AT NEAR:

• Clear sight at short distances is critical to reading, writing, computer work, etc.

DEPTH PERCEPTION AND EYE TEAMING:

• The ability of the eyes to aim, move and work as a coordinated team. The two eyes and all their reciprocating muscles should work together as an efficient team to create normal depth perception. Depth perception and eye teaming skills are intimately related to eye focusing abilities and eye movements.

EYE FOCUSING ABILITIES:

• The ability of the eyes to maintain clear vision at varying distances. Rapid, automatic eye focus adjustment is essential in learning situations and reading. Good eye focusing abilities allow visual attention to be sustained over time with ease -- leaving attention and energy free for learning and attending to tasks other than seeing itself. Deficiencies in eye focusing abilities can cause visual fatigue and avoidance of close work as well as reduced reading comprehension.

EYE MOVEMENTS:

• Eye movements (tracking, fixation, etc.) require the highest level of movement precision in the human body. In the classroom, normal eye movements allow rapid and accurate shifting of the eyes along a line of print in a book or quick and accurate shifts from desk to the board and back again. In sports, efficient eye movements allow for sure tracking.

COLOR VISION:

• Assessment of the ability to differentiate colors, the detection of color blindness, etc.

Above are just a few of the visual skills which are evaluated during our comprehensive vision exam. In addition, the health of your eyes, inside and out, is carefully evaluated for such problems as cataracts, glaucoma, hypertension, diabetes, etc.

Children should have a vision screening exam as early as 6 months of age. Thereafter, they should have complete visual evaluations on a yearly basis especially a full eye exam occurring the summer prior to entry into Kindergarten.

VISION EXAMS FOR ADULTS:

A thorough vision evaluation and follow-up care on a regular basis are very important for early detection and treatment of eye health problems and for prevention of vision problems created by or aggravated by today's academic and professional demands. Our more active lifestyles demand more from our vision than ever before. In fact, 80 percent of all learning tasks require close-up vision. Adults in our hi-tech society constantly use their near vision at work and at home. Your vision should be evaluated EVERY YEAR or more frequently if symptoms of vision problems occur.