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Our son has recently been prescribed glasses, as he has astigmatism; he also has a slight lazy eye.
The optician was telling about eye correction, especially lazy eye (one eye compensating for the other, such that the lazy one does not develop properly).
Vision continues to develop until the age of about 7 yrs old and after this no further eye development takes place. If the correction is not made by this age then no further correction can be made to the eye. His sight will be fine with glasses correction in through later life.
This explained a lot regarding my wife's sight - she has the same issues as our son. Her eyes were never corrected as a child and now she can only see shapes out of her right eye, even though opticians tell her that her eyes physically fine, but the brain can now not be taught to process the information properly.
So if you are unsure get your childs eyes checked and corrected as early as possible, to ensure best sight in later life.
We had a similar experience to Zaden. Our sons astigmatism was discovered almost by accident when he had an eye test cos we were... He's got quite bad eyesite and i was good that we picked it up at 4 years old!!
Have to say the eye tests are free - but for a reasonable set of glasses it's not!! My advice is get insurance on them if the kids are young!! Also if they have bad eyesite they can get an eyetest more regularly and if the prescription changes (like Zaden says eye keep changing when they are young) you should be able to get another voucher for the glasses..
Good thread for national reading week!
Buzz
Its not exactly true that our visual system is "locked in" by age 7. Its more like the gradual drop off in brain plasticity that makes it much harder to learn a new language the older you get, so with perserverance and discipline, amblyopia (lazy eye - technically "lazy brain") can be averted even if it isn't detected until the teen years. However, I would recommend regular eye checks starting as young as possible (but not too young - performing an optometric exam on a 10 month old is a nightmare...).
Peace out.
Our son has recently been prescribed glasses, as he has astigmatism; he also has a slight lazy eye.
The optician was telling about eye correction, especially lazy eye (one eye compensating for the other, such that the lazy one does not develop properly).
What was his recommendation to correct the lazy eye? Patching? Penalising?
Just interested. I am a vision scientist and have published stuff on cortical aspects of lazy eye.
My friends have just had to get glasses for their little girl, she's only 20 months old. Supposedly her eye always seemed a little lazy but one day got worse.
She has cute little plastic glasses to take into account that at her age she's likely to run into a lot of things.... 😆 At least she should get it sorted before school.
Hey Famousdog
been away from the board for awhile.
Just the glasses were prescribed and he goes for regular checkups, to keep checking. He can definitely see better with the glasses.
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