Recently this little girl got standard glasses from an ordinary optometry clinic that didn’t cater for children with special needs or autism.

The facial nerve, cranial nerve (CN) VII, is a nerve which controls the muscles of facial #expressions such as smiling, frowning, etc. It also controls eyelid closure and is also partly involved with taste sensation.

Do you have a foreign body sensation in your eye?  Is the eye red and irritated yet not sore enough to worry about?

Eye problems in Babies.  Do they exist?  Do infants have vision problems?

A concerned mother presented to my clinic, feeling her little boy couldn’t see.  This little boy looked happy and was able to engage with objects at near.  How was it possible that this smiling and content child couldn’t see?

Rubella is a viral illness that causes a skin rash and joint pain. A rubella infection is mild for most people, but it can have catastrophic consequences for an unborn baby.

The many forms of albinism affects every race and takes many forms. Seeing one person with albinism doesn’t mean you have seen all forms of the condition. The only common factor is the reduction or total absence of melanin in the body.

Esotropia in children and adults is a type of strabismus or eye misalignment.

It’s pretty common knowledge that babies are not born with the vision skills that they need for life.  New mothers often wonder what exactly their newborns can actually see.

Young children love the snow, whether it is making snowmen, sledding or racing down the slopes on skis or snowboards.

T.Gondii is a parasite that was first identified as a human pathogen in 1939. It can infect all warm blooded mammals like birds, rats, cats and humans

Amblyopia or lazy eye, is when one eye does not see as well as the other.

A Coloboma is caused when a baby’s eyes do not form properly during pregnancy and there is a failure of complete closure of the tissue within the eye.

Ushers Syndrome is an inherited disease causing hearing loss from birth. Unfortunately the vision dystrophy called Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is also associated with this syndrome.

Also known as Fundus Flavimaculatas, Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy is present in about 1 in 10,000 people.  It is a young persons disease and is characterised by central vision loss early in life.

Why our Kids Need Eye Exams, Even If They’ve Passed a Vision Screening.