Why Did an Eye Doctor Refer Your Child?
Your optometrist or ophthalmologist found something a routine exam flags but doesn’t treat: the eyes are healthy, yet they aren’t working together the way learning demands. Here are the three reasons eye doctors across South Florida send families to us.
What Your Eye Doctor Saw
A referral is good news, even when it doesn’t feel that way. It means the doctor looked past the eye chart. A quick cover test, a check of the eye movements, a near point of convergence — small tests that take seconds — are often the difference between finding an undiagnosed visual problem and a child continuing to struggle in silence.
Those tests don’t measure eyesight; they measure visual skills. A child can read the 20/20 line and still lose their place, see the words double after a few minutes, or reverse letters well past the age when that stops being typical. Eye health and eyesight are one job; teaching the two eyes to aim, focus, track and interpret together is another — and that is the work we do here.
Your eye doctor stays part of the picture. We send a full report on everything we test, periodic updates while your child is in therapy, and we release your child back to their care when the program is complete. Are you the referring provider? Send us a referral.
What They May Have Found
Most eye-doctor referrals to our office fall into one of these three groups. Choose the one that sounds like your child.
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Lazy Eye
Amblyopia or Strabismus
One eye sees less clearly than the other, or one eye turns in, out, up or down — constantly or only sometimes. Glasses alone often don’t resolve it, because the two eyes have stopped working as a team.
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BVD
Eye Teaming, Eye Focusing, or Eye Tracking Deficits
Binocular vision dysfunction: the eyes are healthy and the eye chart is fine, but they don’t aim, focus or move together comfortably. Words blur, double or swim after a few minutes of reading.
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Visual Processing
Perception and Visual Processing Deficits
The eyes deliver the picture, but the brain is slow to make sense of it — letter reversals, lost place, weak comprehension, messy written output despite plenty of effort.
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Not sure which one fits? Start with the symptom survey or browse every problem we work with — the evaluation sorts it out either way.
From Referral to Report
Schedule a developmental vision evaluation
Bring the note, prescription or report your eye doctor gave you. Tell us who referred you when you book so we can send results to the right office.
We test what a 20/20 screening doesn’t
A developmental evaluation measures how the two eyes work together — eye teaming, eye focusing, eye tracking, depth perception and visual processing — beyond eye health and the eye chart. See what an evaluation looks at.
Your eye doctor gets a full report
We send the referring doctor a full report on all results from the additional testing, so nothing has to be repeated and everyone is working from the same findings.
If therapy is indicated, we co-manage
During a vision therapy program we send the referring doctor periodic updates on your child’s progress, and release your child back to their care once the program is complete.
Worth Reading First
- Comprehensive eye exam vs. developmental eye exam What each one measures, and why your eye doctor asked for the second.
- Can a child have 20/20 vision and still struggle with reading? Why a passed screening and a struggling reader are not a contradiction.
- What is vision therapy? How the program works, week to week, if the evaluation shows it’s indicated.
- Our developmental vision evaluation The tests, how long it takes, and what you leave with.
Bring the Referral In
The next step is the evaluation: we measure exactly which visual skills are working and which aren’t, then send your eye doctor the results either way. Offices in Coconut Creek, Boynton Beach, Boca Raton and West Palm Beach.