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Explore our articles on eye health, vision skills, myopia, dry eye and the visual demands of everyday life. Use the related service pages to learn more about a detailed assessment and personalised care at Smart Vision Optometry.
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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.
Published: 25 August 2015 | 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: 30 July 2015 | Updated: 28 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Eyewear should combine the correct prescription, comfortable fit and appropriate protection for the intended task. Sunglasses should provide reliable UV protection.
Published: 6 July 2015 | Updated: 28 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Vision symptoms and everyday visual demands can have several possible causes. A current eye examination helps distinguish prescription needs, binocular function and eye-health findings.
Published: 28 May 2015 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Convergence insufficiency can make near work uncomfortable even when distance eyesight is clear. Treatment can address that diagnosed eye-coordination problem, but should not promise better reading achievement or a cure for ADHD. Reading difficulties need appropriate educational support.
Published: 28 April 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: 3 March 2015 | Updated: 30 September 2026 | Author: Smart Vision Optometry. TL;DR Summary: Eye-hand coordination is the use of visual information to guide hand movements during tasks such as catching, writing and sport. Activities such as juggling may practise coordination, but one activity does not diagnose or treat a learning disability and individual outcomes cannot be assumed from a single case.
