Sunday, August 10, 2008

I see...

The other day Will pulled my glasses off my face and put them on his own. He squinted as he tried to make sense of the altered images now focusing on his own retinas. I couldn't help but wonder if they were helping him. We've already learned his big sister has some visual deficiencies.. so logic would dictate William certainly might as well. But then I got to thinking about how on earth could we ever determine which prescription would be the best ones to correct his vision. It wouldn't be possible to get him to respond to the typical barrage of questions the optometrist would throw at him.. so how indeed?

It occurred to me that he could do it all on his own. He's so capable in so many ways other than verbal communication and it doesn't take him long to pick up on the idea behind a new task. I thought perhaps we could just put him in front of a table with various lenses on it and he'd try them all out, selecting the proper ones.. then properly use the provided tools to assemble them into the frame.. put them on and then walk out the door as if nothing even remotely unusual had just transpired.

Now to find an optometrist willing to give a four year old his tray of lenses to play with.. hmmmm.......

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You never know - there probably is an optometrist out there who would do that! LOL.

I followed the link from Christa's blog over here. I have a 4 yr old girl who is Hyperlexic and I blog about her as well. I'm sure as I read your archives I'll find tons I can relate to.

Karen said...

I've been informed that optometrists now have equipment that can determine simply by looking into the eye what the appropriate correction will be. Will wonders never cease?