For Referring Providers
Everything a referring professional needs in one place — how to send us a patient, what we test and report back, resources written for your discipline, continuing education, and how to book a talk or a screening for your school or team.
What Are You Looking For?
Send a Referral
What to send, what we test, and how findings and progress come back to you. Referrals welcome from eye care, medicine, therapy and education.
Resources by Specialty
Written for your discipline — optometrists, pediatricians, teachers, psychologists and psychiatrists, and OT, PT and speech therapists.
Continuing Education
Our CE course on developmental vision for occupational therapists and allied health professionals, with hands-on screening practice.
Request a Talk or Screening
Lunch and learns, in-service professional development, developmental vision screenings for schools and daycares, and community events.
What Happens After You Refer
Eye teaming, focusing and tracking are separate skills from eyesight, and an acuity chart or a school screening does not measure them. When they are weak, the fallout shows up somewhere other than the eyes — reading, handwriting, attention, balance, behavior, headaches — which is usually where you meet the patient first. Our job is to test those skills properly, tell you what we found, treat what is treatable, and send the patient back to you.
You send the patient
A note with the reason for referral and any relevant records is enough. Not sure whether a patient is a good fit? Ask us first — we’re glad to talk it through.
We evaluate
A comprehensive developmental and binocular vision evaluation: eye teaming, focusing, tracking, visual-motor and visual-processing skills, not just acuity. See what an evaluation involves.
We report back
With the patient’s consent, you get a full report on the additional testing we performed and the recommended plan, so care stays coordinated.
We co-manage, then hand back
While a therapy program runs you get periodic updates on progress. When it is complete, the patient is released back to your care. How the program works.
Resources Written for Your Field
What to look for, what a referral gains you, and how we work alongside you differs by discipline. Jump straight to yours — including the free developmental vision screenings we offer to educators for students they suspect have a learning-related vision problem.
Deciding Whether Vision Belongs in the Picture
If you want a quick sense of whether a functional vision problem is worth ruling out, these are the fastest ways to find out — and the ones parents find easiest to act on.
- The symptom checklist is 43 short symptoms a parent checks off, and it produces something concrete to bring to an evaluation.
- The symptoms we see most lists the complaints that most often turn out to be visual.
- Comprehensive eye exam vs. developmental eye exam — what the second one adds.
- Is a “20/20 vision” child still struggling in school? and what school vision screenings miss.
- Vision therapy vs. occupational therapy — where the two overlap and where they don’t.
- Our referral network — the occupational and physical therapists across Broward and Palm Beach counties we work alongside.
Questions about a specific patient? Call us at (561) 462-1245 before anyone books anything. Families can also start on their own at Start Here.
Have a Patient in Mind?
Send them our way and we’ll evaluate, treat what we can, and report back to you. Patients and parents can book an evaluation directly.