Back-to-School Vision: Is Your Child’s Visual System Ready to Learn? | Dr. Sam Berne with Wellness Mama’s Katie Wells

I’m rebroadcasting my conversation with Katie Wells, founder of Wellness Mama, one of the leading online resources for natural health, wellness, parenting, and healthy living.

This conversation feels especially timely as children return to the classroom, homework, reading, computers, and sports.

Good vision is about much more than seeing 20/20 on an eye chart.

A child may be able to read the smallest letters across the room and still struggle with the visual skills needed for reading, learning, attention, coordination, and sports.

Katie and I explore questions parents frequently ask me, including:

• What is the best kind of vision evaluation for a child?

• Is a standard eye exam enough?

• What should parents know about using dilating/cycloplegic eye drops during children’s eye examinations?

• How can we evaluate focusing, eye teaming, tracking, depth perception, and visual processing?

• What signs might suggest that a child’s visual system is struggling with schoolwork?

• How are vision, movement, balance, and the body connected?

• What can parents do at home to support healthy visual development?