Looking after the children with the 2Win

I remain surprised by the disjointed approach to paediatric vision screening in the UK.

My experience with my three children was that, unless I had suspected a problem they could have happily reached adulthood without any formal screening unless I had arranged for testing. Non-optometrric friends have confirmed the same and suggest a lack of awareness (still!) about the importance of early assessment, especially when compared with other developmental benchmarks such as growth rate or hearing. Can we be confident that without any formal pre- or early school treatment, we are detecting as early as is useful refractive, strabismic and ocular health concerns. Manifest strabismus or clear signs and symptoms of eye or vision disorders should be a cause of concern and assessed as early as possible, one would hope. But what about the less obvious strabismus or disease, or refractive anomalies?