We have been a little worried about my sons vision for at least a year. I took him to an eye doctor last year who did the standard eye exam and said all was well. I actually took him in for rubbing his eyes when reading, but there was no test for close up vision even done. I know that he sees great far away, super great.

That was all right around when he turned 4. The general opinion of many was that he was too young to read and that maybe his eyes were getting tired or had a hard time tracking because it wasn't developmentally appropriate. The eye doctor saw autism on his chart and said it might be a stim or tic or something. I felt like it was all a big waste of time.

This year at DS's 5 year checkup (almost 2 months ago now) they screened his vision with a weird thing he was supposed to look into that made some odd sounds. They tried 4 times, but could not get a reading on his left eye. They recommended an eye doctor to follow up. The same eye doctor we already saw was on the recommended list.

My question is, should I go ahead and schedule another appointment? Should I be looking into a different kind of eye doctor? My son still rubs his eyes a lot when he reads, but he doesn't seem to do it quite as much. At 4 he rubbed his eyes probably 45 seconds out of each minute he read, to the point where I limited reading because I was worried he might damage his eyes. The eye doc said you can't damage your eyes by rubbing them, so I gave up on the reading restriction.

So, yeah, try the whole thing again? Find a different or different kind of doctor? Does the eye scanner not getting a reading generally mean anything anyway? They also want us to do followup with an audiologist because he didn't get all of the sounds on the hearing test, but I personally think that he hears great and he just was having a hard time keeping up with the pace, he has very slow physical reflexes and motor planning issues. I'm also a little tired of experts and appointments... but of course I'm always willing to do what's best for my son.

Any opinions/advice would be greatly appreciated so that I can either get this taken care of or put it on the pile of less important things to get to later.

Last edited by PanzerAzelSaturn; 04/14/15 11:49 AM.