letter home from school nurse for eye test!!???

[lovingbarney]

Hi my d/d5 years has had a letter home from school nurse to say she needs optician appt to test eye sight!!??? I am surprised by this. REcently we had a conversation of how she would like to wear glasses like so and so ...... she is kind of excited at having to go to optician. Her reading has really coming on since starting year 1 it is all coming together for her so i was thinking maybe she was using jolly phonics to pronounce letters and couldn't say letter required. It is not the end of the world if she needs glasses but how can they really tell at this age?

[Bluebear]

My ds had his eyes tested at age 4 - they don't use letters for such young children, they use pictures. I believe that there are other ways of measuring eye sight so that the optician doesn't even need the child to talk to them ( I had a friend who was an optician and used to test the sight of children with developmental delay who couldn't talk to her)

[Skribble]

I remember DD's eye test in nursery very thorough and used a variety of pictures on cards and stickers on lolly sticks etc. Her test results weren't clear so they retested on another day as "some kids just have off days and don't test well."

[lovingbarney]

that's interesting bluebear coincidentally i have just had my eyes tested and don't need glasses just yet thankfully i will take her to same optician for test asap. many thanks

[lovingbarney]

that's interesting bluebear coincidentally i have just had my eyes tested and don't need glasses just yet thankfully i will take her to same optician for test asap. many thanks

[Ellbell]

I have truly terrible eyesight (myopia and astigmatism). I couldn't recognise my own dds if they were standing two feet in front of me. My problems were diagnosed when I started school. My parents had never noticed. Because I had never been able to see, I had adapted to it and did everything a 'normal' 5-y-o did. I could read before I started school and watched TV (the little there was in those days!) so my parents assumed I could see just fine. I'd take your dd to the opticians. She may not need glasses, but if she does, she'll be a lot more comfortable with them... Good luck.