Childrens Vision | Mountain View Optometry and Contact Lens Clinic

Advanced Vision Care Personal Touch

We take pride in our advanced clinical skills and bringing you state-of-the-art eye care technology. We focus on the whole person and giving you the best vision possible!

At this time, ALL visits to Mountain View Optometry are by appointment only (including routine, contact lens and optical visits). Please call us 650-967-6649 to schedule your visit. For routine annual exams, you can use the REQUEST APPOINTMENT tab on this website .

Children's Vision
The American Optometric Association recommends that children have their first eye exam before the age of 1, followed at 3 years of age and every 2 years thereafter.

Our comprehensive children's eye examinations consist of:

•	Review of family history and child's general health
•	Assessment to determine your child's visual needs and eye health
•	Eye positioning and eye teaming tests
•	Color and depth perception tests
•	Peripheral vision tests
•	Basic eye tracking tests
•	Near and distance vision tests (to determine the need for glasses or contact lenses)
•	Eye health evaluation
•	Diagnosis and treatment of symptoms
•	Recommendation of binocular vision and/or perceptual skills assessment tests, if necessary
•	Recommendation of vision therapy, if necessary

What is Vision Therapy?

Seeing 20/20 is only a piece of the visual process. Other fundamental parts of the visual process that affect the ability to learn such as eye coordination, eye focusing and visual perceptual activities must also be evaluated. Vision Therapy is a specialty field of eye care. It is an individualized treatment used to help patients acquire the visual skills and abilities needed for learning and school performance. Our optometrists here at MVO are trained to evaluate and diagnose eye positioning and teaming skills. Vision therapy treatment is not conducted at our office, however, if needed the doctor will make the appropriate recommendation.