To patch or not to patch at the airport?
We have stepped up our patching the last 2 weeks and done away with the atropine drops since she is keeping the re-usable patches on SO much better than the […]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Picture request: strabismus photo for the cover of Optometry and Vision Development
Dr. Bonilla-Warford, from Bright Eyes News has been asked to find a cover photo for an issue of Optometry and Vision Development. He is looking for a high quality, high […]
Week 5 – i patch
Welcome to our patch challenge- WEEK 5. My daughter is 2 ½ and has Amblyiopia. We are currently trying to help her brain recognize her right eye. She has perfect […]
Prevalence of refractive errors in young children: The Baltimore Pediatric Eye Disease study
I finally got around to reading the full article published in Ophthalmology on the Baltimore Pediatric Eye Disease study (link to the abstract, link to a press release). The study […]
Your stories – Jillian
This story was sent in by Dawn. – Ann Z My Jillian had surgery recently at 20 months. We didn’t discover her eye problems until she was about 13 months […]
online glasses special for adults from SelectSpecs
I’m straying a bit from our normal focus (oh dear, please forgive that unintentional pun – there are just too many puns to be made when it comes to vision…), […]
Great web resource: A Child’s Eyes
I just stumbled across this page – A Child’s Eyes – and was struck by just how much great information is here – information on different types of frames, how […]
Toronto Event: Eye of the Tigger – a panel discussion on strabismus treatment
I wanted to share this information from Lisa: To Parents of Children with Strabismus… Strabismus: A condition in which the visual axes of the eyes are not parallel and the […]
Surgery Update!
SURGERY COMPLETE!! McKenna’s surgery was 5/21 at 9:30am. We had to be there 2 hours early and the drive was an hour! So the wait was horrendous! I do not […]
Week 4 – Dr. Patch
Update: 11/21/2013: I was contacted by a representative of Dr. Patch: ” Amomofelly mentions how easy it is to peak through the patch… We listened and created a new patch that […]
Monday morning round-up: May 18 edition
Hearing and vision– an interesting and important post by Amblyopia Kids about her daughter’s difficulties with a hearing screening while wearing a patch (she passed with flying colors when she […]
milestones, eye exams, and preparing your toddler for vision tests
Zoe is young enough that most of her eye exams didn’t use any of the eye charts that we normally think of to determine her prescription. They used Teller Acuity […]
ordering glasses online
There’s some good discussion and tips on the open thread on glasses about ordering glasses online. I think I will add a section to the Collected Wisdom page about that. […]
just for fun
Not sure what was going on, but I stumbled upon two articles about dogs and glasses today. I know it’s a little outside the normal topic of the blog, but […]
I love me some Target!
Ok, so I love Target in general and sometimes think I should just hand over our paycheck to them at times, but I’m even more lucky because our Target is […]
For Little Eyes 