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?
• How can children’s vision affect reading, homework, classroom performance, and sports?
I also share one of my favorite Functional Vision Integrative Body™ physical therapy exercises and discuss why I believe working with the whole body can be so important when supporting the visual system.
As children return to school, this is a wonderful time for parents to ask a different question:
Can my child see clearly?
And then go one step further:
Can my child comfortably and efficiently use their vision to meet the demands of their world?
That is a very different conversation—and it’s the one Katie and I explore in this episode.
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