Published: 16 February 2020 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: A distance eyesight chart is one part of assessing a child’s vision. An examination can also consider refraction, eye health and eye coordination when indicated. Reading, behavioural or developmental concerns need appropriate educational or medical assessment as well.
Published: 2 May 2019 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Sports place demands on vision, timing and coordination. Eye care can address diagnosed visual needs, but training cannot promise a sporting career or protection from concussion. Suspected concussion requires removal from play and medical assessment.
Published: 18 December 2018 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: ADHD and visual problems can coexist, but similar symptoms do not prove that an ADHD diagnosis is wrong. An eye assessment can identify visual needs; it does not diagnose or cure ADHD. Discuss diagnosis and medication with the treating medical professional.
Published: 2 November 2018 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: This family archive describes one infant’s visual development and eye examination. It is not a fixed timetable for every baby. Raise concerns during child-health checks and arrange assessment when advised; a child’s needs depend on history, findings and risk.
Published: 17 October 2018 | Updated: 28 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Myopia makes distant objects look blurred and can progress during childhood. Correcting blur and slowing progression are different goals, and no single management option guarantees that progression will stop.
Published: 25 July 2017 | Updated: 28 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Visual conditions can coexist with learning, reading, attention or coordination concerns, but these concerns are not diagnosed from one eye symptom or behaviour. Eye findings and educational or developmental needs should be assessed separately.
Published: 29 June 2017 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Correcting myopic blur and slowing myopia progression are different goals. Do not stop or weaken prescribed glasses because of this historical article. Discuss progression, suitable management options and follow-up with your clinician; no option guarantees that myopia will stop.
Published: 11 April 2017 | Updated: 28 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Healthy lifestyle habits can support general and eye health, but diet, exercise, hydration or supplements do not replace diagnosis-specific treatment or monitoring.
Published: 30 March 2017 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Anxiety and visual symptoms can occur at the same time, but blurred vision, flashes, tunnel-like vision or other visual changes have many possible causes and should not automatically be attributed to anxiety. Persistent changes deserve assessment, and sudden vision changes can require urgent medical care.
Published: 3 February 2017 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: School readiness includes a child’s learning, communication, social and developmental needs. Eye screening and assessment can identify visual needs, but an eye test alone does not determine readiness or guarantee reading success. Raise concerns early with the relevant health and education professionals.
Published: 19 October 2016 | Updated: 28 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Long periods of screen use can contribute to temporary eye discomfort, dryness and focusing fatigue. Digital-device blue light has not been shown to cause permanent eye disease.
Published: 2 August 2016 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Colour vision deficiency affects how some colours are distinguished. Testing can clarify the pattern and guide practical support. Filtering lenses may change colour contrast for some people, but do not cure inherited colour vision deficiency or automatically satisfy occupational requirements.
Published: 9 June 2016 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: This family story discusses involving a child in choosing comfortable, well-fitting glasses. Frame selection also needs to suit the prescription and activities. The featured frame and stock claims are historical; confirm current availability with the practice.
Published: 18 May 2016 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Age-related macular degeneration affects central vision and requires care suited to its type and stage. New distortion or central vision change needs prompt assessment. The campaign, donation offer and named products in this archive are historical, not current offers or individual treatment recommendations.
Published: 28 April 2016 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: This historical reflection describes professional learning and job satisfaction at an optometry conference. Its personal anecdotes express the author’s experience; they do not establish treatment effectiveness or predict another patient’s reading outcome.
Published: 21 March 2016 | Updated: 28 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Long periods of screen use can contribute to temporary eye discomfort, dryness and focusing fatigue. Digital-device blue light has not been shown to cause permanent eye disease.
Published: 3 May 2016 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Neuroplasticity is the brain’s capacity to change in response to experience and learning. Practice can improve the skill being trained, but those gains do not automatically transfer to unrelated abilities, and neuroplasticity by itself does not prove that a particular vision-training programme improves school performance.
Published: 4 December 2015 | Updated: 28 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Visual conditions can coexist with learning, reading, attention or coordination concerns, but these concerns are not diagnosed from one eye symptom or behaviour. Eye findings and educational or developmental needs should be assessed separately.
Published: 18 November 2015 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: This archive recounts a Smart Vision buying trip to the Silmo eyewear exhibition in Paris. The featured brands, designs, figures and availability describe that visit. Ask the practice about current stock, fit and prescription suitability.
Published: 6 October 2015 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Vision supports many everyday activities, but attention, social interaction and wellbeing cannot be judged from eye behaviour alone. Eye checks can identify visual needs and sometimes signs requiring medical referral. Examination timing should reflect individual age, symptoms and risk.
