Vision Care Development – eye health care to optimise your child’s learning

Vision Care Development experts have eye health care solutions which can help boost children's learning abilities

We all want to give our children the very best start to life.

Vision Care Development specialise in eye care to develop the visual and learning skills of children and adults

Young children explore the world using their senses as they lay those vital building blocks for further learning.

It can be through something as simple as recognising shapes and letters to understanding their names and in turn developing their language skills.

Yet that focus on development is now sharper than ever with parents sending their children back to school after the summer break.

It is often here in the classroom that we get the first real understanding of a child’s development and can help to pinpoint those that may need a little extra help than first meets the eye.

In this article the team at York based Vision Care Development explain how they are determined to go beyond just a regular eye test.

BOOK AN APPOINTMENT: You can book an appointment online and find out more at www.visioncaredevelopment.co.uk/book-an-appointment.

Vision Care Development say struggles in the classroom, such as attention spans and fine motor skills, can often be a sign of something else impacting their child’s learning.

We know that children’s progression can suffer if their vision is impaired and a regular check up can help to spot any problems sooner rather than later.

That’s why our team offers more than just an eye test.

This is not just about how the eyes work. It is about how a young person's vision develops and the impact that can have on their other senses if it’s not functioning properly.

It can lead to short attention spans, children becoming disengaged in learning and then those struggles in the classroom create a knock on impact on their academic performance.

VisionCare Development is a Neuro-developmental Optometry practice, with premises in Acomb, York, which deals with vision rather than eyesight – for us it’s all about how the brain uses all the senses to make sense of the what, where and when.

From infancy to adolescence, our senses shape how we perceive and interact with the world around us, and this plays a crucial role in cognitive growth and educational attainment.

Vision, hearing, touch, vestibular (balance), proprioception (location), taste, and smell are the gateways through which we gather information from the environment.

A child’s learning can suffer if their vision is impaired

We’ve seen through our team of experts that in order to learn, our minds and bodies must work together as one to help us to continue to make sense of the changing world around us.

We specialise in treating amblyopia (lazy eye), vision-based reading difficulties, dyspraxia, learning difficulties, balance and posture, retained reflexes, auditory perception and much more.

We’re here to offer that support to families to help make sure that their children are setting themselves up for success with a lifetime of learning.

And we hope that by giving them all the right support and building blocks they need it will then set them up for a happy and healthy future.