Eye checkup

Last year Abigail had the 4 year old's eye test given by the government: she had normal vision. After we discovered that she could read independently Abigail has been reading intensely. A few times she said that things looked a bit blurry - warning bells indeed!

Today Abigail's vision was examined by an optometrist. She has slight astigmatism and slight short-sightedness (1 or 2 increments) -0.25. But the optometrist also said that up until age 7 Abigail's vision can change and maybe even become far-sighted. It was important for the environmental factors to be right to encourage her eyes to rest between sessions of reading, and to focus on long distance after say 20 minutes of close up work. Will we be able to get Abigail to do this when she is doing classwork? Follow up exam in 18 months' time.

Pascale enjoyed looking at all the optometrist equipment and sitting on the special chair. She played with the model of the eye and various lenses for a little bit.