If you are a parent and you are vigilant about your child’s activities, you would immediately notice if your child needs prescription glasses or not. There is no doubt that children can get diagnosed with astigmatism, hyperopia or myopia. But what most parents don’t realize is that children can also need reading glasses.
No, presbyopia or the eye’s inability to focus on nearby objects is not just for the adults or the elderly. In fact, a lot of children who had been diagnosed with a learning problem were soon discovered to have the learning problem because they could not see very well. The mistake that a lot of counselors make when they make their assessment is that they forget to have all the potential physical disorders which could affect the learning of a child.
Look for signs and symptoms which could point you to conclude that your child may need glasses for reading:
– They read with their noses to the page
– They adjust the paper in front of them before they attempt to read
– They get bad headaches when they read for a certain length of time
Some children don’t display these symptoms, they just all of a sudden suffer blinding headaches and start vomiting, but not accompanied by any stomach or tummy distress, fever or loose bowels
Some children display the symptoms differently, if they are asked to play with a handheld video game they don’t last long, they can be seen chunking the games away from them and complain that it gives them a headache
Some children just keep complaining they have a headache every single day
Now those children who display these signs and symptoms should not be examined by a GP or a psychologist, they should be examined by an optometrist or the optician at the least. Some children who display the symptoms are sometimes misdiagnosed as having learning deficiencies, learning handicaps, attitude problems or just playing hooky from class.
Once the eye exam is done and there is a need to have the prescription glasses do not hesitate to get the glasses for reading for the kids. It is necessary that their vision gets corrected early for if they develop the symptoms at a young age it can get corrected immediately. In fact, some children only need to wear the glasses for a year or two before they discover that the eyes were back to normal.
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