Children’s Eye Exams in Oshawa, ON

Children should receive their first eye exam between the ages of 6 and 9 months.

Your baby’s eyes develop exponentially within their first 6 months of life. By the time they’re 6 months old, they will have acquired eye movement control and hand-eye coordination skills. An eye exam at this time will look for common childhood eye conditions, like strabismus and amblyopia.

Our optometrists are experienced with family eye care. We use various child-friendly methods to evaluate your child’s ocular health and vision.

Children between the ages of 2 and 5 should have at least one eye exam before entering school.

These are important developmental years when your child will continue to improve their hand-eye coordination and gain added depth perception. An eye exam will discover potential vision problems or eye diseases, which require treatment and management before your child enters school.

Activities like building blocks, assembling puzzles, painting, drawing, or sorting items for size and colour are great for helping your child with their visual development.

School-age children should undergo annual eye exams. Your child will constantly use their eyes during these years, from school to play to extracurricular activities.

Your child will depend on several visual skills to help them interact and understand the world and succeed academically and socially. If your child’s visual skills are impaired, their learning and development will be impacted detrimentally.

If your child begins to develop visual or ocular issues, their eyes will adjust to compensate. This means your child may not be aware of the problems because they think how they’re seeing is normal. Undiagnosed and uncorrected vision problems can lead to headaches, fatigue, difficulty staying focused or concentrating in school, among others.

Even if your child’s eyes seem healthy and their eyesight stable, they should receive annual eye exams to diagnose and manage potential issues before damage occurs.