Optician for a almost 4 year old

[briggsy's girl]

the paed opthamologist said by this age, there is no need to see them directly unless a regular optometrist believes there is a problem. DD has astigmatisms and is mildly short sighted, but is being monitored by the local optometrist.

to see the paed opthamologist you will likely need to see an optometrist and then wait weeks (months) for an appointment. just go in to a local opsm or similar and ask for an appointment with the optometrist - they'll let you know from there if there is further investigation needed

and they don't need to be able to recognise letters - E is tested with pictures of animals (duck fish cat, dog) and once a bit older, it will be direction of a set letter (left right up down), followed by numbers

i've had glasses since i was a bub (less than a year old) - i was monitored by a local optometrist and seen the paed opthamologist when he said i needed my glasses changed.

[wysiwyg]

the paed opthamologist said by this age, there is no need to see them directly unless a regular optometrist believes there is a problem. DD has astigmatisms and is mildly short sighted, but is being monitored by the local optometrist.

to see the paed opthamologist you will likely need to see an optometrist and then wait weeks (months) for an appointment.

Yes that is what I had been told so was so surprised when Specsavers told me otherwise. I know with DS we had a long wait for the paed opthamologist because it was non-urgent (there was nothing wrong at all in the end) this would also be non-urgent she passed the test but given is so long before would be routinely tested in school the MCHN thought was worth testing again.

Thanks for all the advice everyone.

[Yael]

I didn't have a long wait to see ours.. a few weeks maybe?

You can google her, she is a developmental optometrist I believe?