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Vision check: doctors stress comprehensive eye exams

Reading is one of the fundamental skills required of students to do well in school. But first, children need to be able to see the words and numbers in front of them. "If our vision isn't working to the full potential, then the child isn't able to achieve their full potential in school, socially, academically, or even athletically," said Dr. Tina McCarty, an optometrist with the Eye Care Center in Maple Grove. Dr. McCarty says vision screenings a child might get at school can provide parents with a false sense of security. Instead, kids should be getting comprehensive eye exams, which include color vision, depth perception, eye muscle movements and pupil tests. "We're going through a refraction, which determines if they're nearsighted or farsighted, or have amounts of astigmatism," said McCarty. "We're looking at eye teeming and focusing, and then we're doing a thorough health check through the inside of the eye." It's a long list that can't be captured through vision screenings.Yet McCarty says only 10 percent of first graders have had a comprehensive eye exam before entering school. "It's very often that I see a patient that has perhaps passed a school screening but is having a short attention span at school and reading, and then they get channeled into an individual education plan, or they get channeled into an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder," said McCarty. In other words, the kids were misdiagnosed, when in fact, poor vision was their main problem. "I think one of the biggest things parents should notice is short attention span through near or reading work," she said. Eye doctors say comprehensive eye exams should be done during infancy, at age 3, just before entering school, and then every year or every other year up to graduation. Delane Cleveland http://www.ccxmedia.org   / ccxmedia.org     / ccxsports   Learn about our mobile app - http://bit.ly/CH12app Channel 12 is on Comcast cable in the northwest suburbs of Minneapolis and includes the cities Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Crystal, Golden Valley, Maple Grove, New Hope, Osseo, Plymouth and Robbinsdale.