Children's Eye Exams
An examination of a child at Dr. Weisz's office can be a surprisingly pleasant and satisfying experience for the parents and children. Movies, toys,pictures, and games are used to gain important findings of how a child sees. It is not necessary that a child knows his alphabet letters, nor is he/she even required to verbalize. The child does not even have to tell us which is better, #1 or #2!
New technology has allowed some ocular testing to be more comfortable than ever before. |
You can be confident that the prescription your children receive will provide optimum comfort and visual efficiency, which will enhance their abilities to develop and ultimately function to the best of their abilities in school, sports, and hobbies.
For the school aged youngster, functional vision examinations include not only evaluation of distance vision, but also of the important functional visual skills so necessary for reading. These include skills of nearpoint focusing, binocular teamwork of the two eyes ("muscle balance"), and eye movement control or visual tracking. These nearpoint visual skills are essential for a young person to read efficiently over time, with a mimum of eyestrain and blur. Disturbances in these skills can contribute to headaches, avoidance of reading, deteroration of performance when reading, confusion of similar words, lack of progress in reading, and other symptoms.
An extensive selection of frames is available for children and young people of all ages. Frames are selected so as to durable as possible for youngsters. Polycarbonate safety lenses are recommended along with scratch resistance. Contact lenses are available for young people when desired for sports, cosmesis, or prescriptions served optimally with contacts. The most up-to-date materials allow for greater safety and convenience than ever before available. Finally, vision therapy approaches are available for those select cases that would benefit.
Dr. Weisz received a Certificate in Pediatric Optometry from Illinois College of Optometry and served as an Assistant Clinical Professor in Optometry in Pediatrics. She has served as the optometrist in 1977 for the Illinois Deaf-Blind School, and has previously been an optometric consultant for Easter Seals and United Cerebral Palsy of Joliet. Dr. Weisz holds a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology from Loyola University which further embellishes her capacity to work with children with learning disabilities, reading disabilities, and developmental disorders, so as to appreciate the relevance of the visual disturbances in the broader picture of the child's development.
Dr. Weisz is conveniently located in the Joliet area, and she welcomes patients from Romeoville, Bolingbrook, Plainfield and Shorewood.
For the school aged youngster, functional vision examinations include not only evaluation of distance vision, but also of the important functional visual skills so necessary for reading. These include skills of nearpoint focusing, binocular teamwork of the two eyes ("muscle balance"), and eye movement control or visual tracking. These nearpoint visual skills are essential for a young person to read efficiently over time, with a mimum of eyestrain and blur. Disturbances in these skills can contribute to headaches, avoidance of reading, deteroration of performance when reading, confusion of similar words, lack of progress in reading, and other symptoms.
An extensive selection of frames is available for children and young people of all ages. Frames are selected so as to durable as possible for youngsters. Polycarbonate safety lenses are recommended along with scratch resistance. Contact lenses are available for young people when desired for sports, cosmesis, or prescriptions served optimally with contacts. The most up-to-date materials allow for greater safety and convenience than ever before available. Finally, vision therapy approaches are available for those select cases that would benefit.
Dr. Weisz received a Certificate in Pediatric Optometry from Illinois College of Optometry and served as an Assistant Clinical Professor in Optometry in Pediatrics. She has served as the optometrist in 1977 for the Illinois Deaf-Blind School, and has previously been an optometric consultant for Easter Seals and United Cerebral Palsy of Joliet. Dr. Weisz holds a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology from Loyola University which further embellishes her capacity to work with children with learning disabilities, reading disabilities, and developmental disorders, so as to appreciate the relevance of the visual disturbances in the broader picture of the child's development.
Dr. Weisz is conveniently located in the Joliet area, and she welcomes patients from Romeoville, Bolingbrook, Plainfield and Shorewood.