What Vision Concerns Do You Have About Your Child?
Pick the one that sounds most like your child. Each path explains what parents notice, how vision can be involved, and what a developmental vision evaluation looks at.
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Most families reach this page the same way: a bright, hardworking child who is struggling anyway. The school screening was passed. The eye exam said 20/20. And yet reading is slow, homework takes hours, the headaches keep coming, or one eye drifts when they get tired.
Eyesight — how small a letter you can read across the room — is only one part of vision. The rest is a set of learned skills: aiming both eyes at the same word, keeping it clear up close, moving accurately across a line of text, and making sense of what is seen. Those skills are not measured by a 20/20 screening, and when one of them is inefficient a child pays for it in effort, comfort and attention. See the full list of signs.
Choose the concern below that fits best. You are not diagnosing anything — you are just picking the right starting point, and an evaluation sorts out the rest.
Which One Sounds Like Your Child?
These are the concerns parents bring us most often. Choose one to read what we look for and how vision therapy may help.
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Reading
Struggling With Reading or Learning
Skips or re-reads lines, loses their place, reverses letters, writes messily, or reads far below what you know they are capable of — and homework ends in tears.
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Blurry
Complaints of Blurry (With 20/20 Vision) or Double Vision
The eye chart says 20/20 and the eyes are healthy, yet your child says the words blur, swim or go double after a few minutes of reading.
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Focus
Difficulty Paying Attention or Staying Focused
Attention holds up for play, sports and screens but falls apart over reading and near work — the pattern that often looks like a focus problem and behaves like a vision problem.
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Headache
Frequent Headaches, Eye Rubbing, or Eye Strain
Headaches after school or screen time, constant eye rubbing, squinting, tired eyes — a visual system working far harder than it should to keep the page clear and single.
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Lazy Eye
Eye Misalignment or Lazy Eye (Amblyopia / Strabismus)
One eye turns in, out, up or down — always or only when tired — or one eye simply sees less clearly than the other even with the right glasses.
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Referral
Referred to Office by Other Provider
Your eye doctor, pediatrician, psychologist, occupational or physical therapist, or your child’s teacher suggested a developmental vision evaluation. Start here.
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More than one fits? That is normal — these problems travel together. Pick the one that bothers your child most, or take the symptom survey and bring the results with you.
Not on the List?
If your child is clumsy, bumps into things, gets car sick, walks on their toes or avoids ball games, start with visual-motor integration. If the eye chart, the eye health check and the glasses prescription are what you need, our comprehensive and developmental evaluations cover both. And if the person struggling is an adult — blurry or double vision, headaches, dizziness or reading fatigue at work — read about binocular vision dysfunction in adults.
Still not sure where you fit? Ask us, or browse every problem we work with. We would rather point you to the right place than have you guess.
Worth Reading First
- 5 signs your child may need vision therapy The everyday behaviors parents notice first, and what each one can point to.
- Can a child have 20/20 vision and still struggle with reading? Why a passed screening and a struggling reader are not a contradiction.
- Comprehensive eye exam vs. developmental eye exam What each one measures, and which one answers the question you are asking.
- What is vision therapy? How a program actually works, week to week, if the evaluation shows it is indicated.
- What other South Florida families experienced Parents describing the change they saw at home and at school.
The Next Step Is an Evaluation
Whichever concern you picked, the answer comes from measuring it. A developmental vision evaluation tells you exactly which visual skills are working, which aren’t, and whether therapy is the right answer — at Coconut Creek, Boynton Beach, Boca Raton or West Palm Beach.