From the strenuous visual demands of school and work, to unexpected head trauma or injury, our visual system can become fatigued or compromised. This may register as blur, headaches, double vision, and tiredness with prolonged use of the eyes, among other symptoms. Visual stress can make it significantly more difficult for you to concentrate and perform your daily tasks with ease, affecting overall performance and learning. This can be true even if you are able to see 20/20!

Visual Skills Assessment

This assessment evaluates in more detail how you gather information with your visual system. Testing aims to detect any deficiencies of your visual skills that may contribute to the symptoms you experience and is more extensive than what is done in a routine eye exam. Please note a Visual Skills Assessment does not replace your regular full eye exam. The following visual skills will be examined during your evaluation:

• Eye teaming: The ability to direct both eyes together as a team to view objects of regard with ease

• Eye focusing: The ability to focus the eyes quickly and accurately for different distances to avoid blurry vision and sustaining this over time

• Eye movements: The ability to fixate, follow a moving target smoothly, and switch gaze from one target to another quickly and accurately

• Peripheral awareness: The ability to monitor and interpret what is happening around you while you are attending to a central visual task

Dr. Yew will do an extensive refraction to provide the most suitable prescription that aid in visual performance rather than solely focus on 20/20 vision. This may involve the addition of prisms, tints, and task-specific lenses to your glasses.