Children’s Eye Exams in Grande Prairie, Jasper, & Edson

Myopia, also known as nearsightedness, is a common refractive error that can develop in school-age children.

Myopia affects your child’s distance vision, making it difficult for them to read signs, play sports, or follow presentations.

Please visit our Myopia Control page to learn more about this issue and how we can help manage it.

Amblyopia, also known as lazy eye, is an eye condition characterized by having weaker visual acuity in one eye.

Lazy eye can develop in young children. Without treatment, your child’s brain may choose to ignore images from their “weaker” eye, leading to vision problems in that eye.

Vision therapy exercises are a common way to correct amblyopia symptoms. We may also recommend prescription glasses or contact lenses.

Strabismus, commonly referred to as crossed eyes, an eye muscle dysfunction affects your child’s eye alignment.

Vision therapy is one of the ways we can potentially correct strabismus and preserve your child’s vision. We may also recommend corrective glasses or contact lenses.

Astigmatism occurs when there is an imperfection in the cornea’s curvature or eye’s lens. Light can’t properly refract onto the retina, resulting in near and distant vision being blurred.

Genetics is a contributing factor to astigmatism, and it’s often present at birth. This eye condition may occur in combination with myopia (nearsightedness) or hyperopia (farsightedness).

Bringing your child in for regular eye exams can help detect signs of astigmatism to monitor for development and provide treatment options if necessary.

Convergence insufficiency is a condition that occurs when the eyes don’t move together when looking at a nearby object. Instead of both eyes moving inward to focus on the object, one or both eyes move outward.

Convergence insufficiency is associated with conditions that affect the brain and can result in symptoms such as eyestrain, headaches, and difficulty reading.

Vision therapy is available to help improve the eye’s convergence ability.

The ability to switch your eyes from viewing something close to far away without any blur is important for processing visual information. Accommodative insufficiency is the inability to change focus from near to far.

This eye condition affects how children can effectively learn in the classroom as well as play sports and other games. Vision therapy treatments are available at Aurora Eyecare to help train the eyes and brain to work together.

Oculomotor dysfunction affects how the brain accurately coordinates the eyes to move. It occurs when a developmental delay, brain trauma, or disease affects the central nervous system.

If you notice your child often loses their place while reading or skips over words or entire sentences, they may be dealing with oculomotor dysfunction.

Vision therapy is available to help develop eye-tracking skills and improve how the eyes work together. Visit Aurora Eyecare to discover if vision therapy is right for your child.

You may have heard hyperopia referred to as farsightedness. It means your child has the ability to see objects off in the distance clearly, but close-up objects are blurry.

Hyperopia occurs when the eyeball is too short or the eye’s surface doesn’t have enough curvature. When light enters the eye, it’s unable to properly focus on the retina, which leads to blurred vision.

This eye condition can be treated with corrective lenses. Bringing your child in for a comprehensive eye exam can determine their current prescription and the presence of potential vision problems.