Questions about my sons eye doctors appointment today

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Hi,

 

I am hoping someone in the group can answer my questuions.

 

I took my 10 yr old to the eye doctor today. He has both oral and verbal

dyspraxia and some sensory issues. Just for the background info.

 

The eye doc had a very hard time with examining my sons eyes. My when he asked

him to follow the pen light with his. My son was moving his whole head back and

forth instead of just his eyes. After the doc went on to perform some other

simliar tests. He told me that my sons eyes turned in. (This doc did not give

any more info than that,) I explained that my son receives OT at school. OT is

working on visual tracking with my son they claim he has a lot trouble with the

visual tracking when tracking objects he moves his whole head not just his

eyes.  All through the rest of the exam he kept telling my son  you need to

listen. Due to the fact that my son was having major problems with doing the

parts of the exam that required my son to hold still for one and follow lights

with just his eyes.  The guy even mentioned to mys on maybe he should have his

hearing checked while we were doing the vision test since he was not listening

to his directions. The

mentione dthe fact that my son has perfect eharing according to his hearing

test. The doctor then goes on to tell me that son also has a stigmatism. He will

need glasses to correct it. The glasses are also suppost to help with his visual

tracking issues.

 

I asked the eye doctor why has no one picked up the fact that my sons eyes turn

in before? If he has a stigmatism why did they not pick up on this in a prevoius

eye exam?

The doctors answer was this I can not answer those questions for you. The eye

doctor also mentioned the fact that mys on see letters and numbers backwards. I

asked him if it could be due to his having dyslexia. The eye doctor told me no.

 

Now for my questions for you all.

 

I wear glasses myself.

 

Now my first question is this:

 

My sons eyes supposedly turn in.

 

Should my sons pediatrician have noticed his eyes turn in?

Should I have known this before now?

My son has seen tons of medical specialists in his 10 years of life. It seems to

me one of them would of noticed this.

I would think if my sons eyes turned in one would notice it by looking at

my son.

 

I am very upset about this.

 

Question number 2 is:

 

Can glasses actually correct my sons visual tracking issues?

 

Question 3 is:

 

Does this make sense to you. My son only needs to wear the glasses for school

day except recess and playing. He only needs to wear them at home for school

work,reading,using computer, and watching tv. The rest of the time he doe snot

need them.

Does this make much sense to you all?

To me it does not those were the exact instructions. It seems like to me my son

should wear his glasses full time.

 

Question 4 is:

 

Does this sound right to you all.

 

 Question 5 is this:

Can the eye doctor actually tell whether or not my son is seeing letters and

numbers backward or not? 

Should he even be answering that question?

 

My son sees letters and numbers backwards at times ( the school and I both think

he does) he also sometimes writes letters backward one time and the right way

the next. My son goes back and forth with this all the time.

 

 

I am wondering if I should actually get a second opinion before I get his

glasses.

This eye doctor just seems like a total quack to me. I mean I was not the least

impredded with this guy at all.

 

Thanks for anyones help in advance.

 

Oh just so you all know ahead of time. No one and I mean no one has ever

mentioned to me anything wrong with my sons eyes before. My son has had one

other full eye exam a few back. Nothing was wrong . I took him to an eye doctor

I had seen as a child for many years and still did until I decided to try this

new one today.

 

Jeanne and

NH