What’s Vision?

Vision is more than seeing. Eyesight may be seeing, but vision is integrating and understanding the images. Eyes must provide an accurate position in time and space, and your brain integrates all of that input along with other information.

Vision most definitely affects development. Children’s orientation to the world is related to being able to coordinate eyes, hands, feet and brains. Therefore, posture and emotional states are important for progressive orientation to new environments.

Vision-training optometrists have understood it better than most eye doctors, sInce they don’t view the eye as merely a structure and optical system. They view the function of the eye, which involves the relationship between central and peripheral vision, tracking and both near and far vision. In other words, vision is not just being able to focus on the the 20/20 Snellen Eye Chart.

An eye exam should be much more than about seeing.