Vision Screening Tests For Children
EYEWise Vision Clinic offers a comprehensive Visual screening test in children with reading difficulties and learning disabilities.
Learning disabilities have become an increasing personal and public concern in Singapore. Among the spectrum of issues of concern in learning disabilities, the inability to read and comprehend is a major obstacle to learning and may have long-term educational, social, and economic implications.
Early medical assessment and treatment is now available as more parents become aware of their children’s learning disabilities.
Sometimes children may also have treatable visual difficulty along with their primary reading or learning dysfunction. Routine vision screening examinations at an eye clinic can identify most of those who have reduced visual acuity due to correctable causes.
Learning disabilities have become an increasing personal and public concern in Singapore. Among the spectrum of issues of concern in learning disabilities, the inability to read and comprehend is a major obstacle to learning and may have long-term educational, social, and economic implications.
Early medical assessment and treatment is now available as more parents become aware of their children’s learning disabilities.
Sometimes children may also have treatable visual difficulty along with their primary reading or learning dysfunction. Routine vision screening examinations at an eye clinic can identify most of those who have reduced visual acuity due to correctable causes.
Dr Christopher Khng, is an affiliate of the Dyslexic Association of Singapore (DAS) (www.das.org.sg) since 2005. He has experience dealing with children with this learning difficulty for more than 10 years.
He performs vision screening tests for children who are under the various educational remedial programs like the Orton-Gillingham (OG), Cellfield, Hornsby and Audiblox approaches to remedial reading instruction and learning difficulty.
If you suspect your child has a learning disability, why not make an appointment for a visual screening test today?
Visual screening tests are for children who are 4 years old and above.
*What is Dyslexia?
(Adapted from www.wikipedia.org)
Identified by Oswald Berkhan in 1881, the term ‘dyslexia’ was coined in 1887 by Rudolf Berlin, an ophthalmologist practicing in Stuttgart, Germany. He used the term to refer to a case of a young boy who had a severe impairment in learning to read and write in spite of showing typical intellectual and physical abilities in all other respects.
In 1896, W. Pringle Morgan, a British physician, from Seaford, East Sussex, England published a description of a reading-specific learning disorder in a report to the British Medical Journal titled “Congenital Word Blindness”. This described the case of a 14-year-old boy who had not yet learned to read, yet showed normal intelligence and was generally adept at other activities typical of children of that age.[5]
During the 1890s and early 1900s, James Hinshelwood, a British ophthalmologist, published a series of articles in medical journals describing similar cases of congenital word blindness, which he defined as “a congenital defect occurring in children with otherwise normal and undamaged brains characterised by a difficulty in learning to read.” In his 1917 book Congenital Word Blindness, Hinshelwood asserted that the primary disability was in visual memory for words and letters, and described symptoms including letter reversals, and difficulties with spelling and reading comprehension.[6]
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关于克里斯托弗·康博士
克里斯托弗·康医生专攻复杂白内障和前节重建手术，尤其擅长虹膜重建和无虹膜症手术。他的其他专长领域包括复杂晶状体手术、新型晶状体和超声乳化技术、屈光手术、有晶体眼人工晶状体（可植入胶原蛋白晶状体，ICL）以及小切口、局部麻醉超声乳化白内障手术。.
他在英国苏格兰阿伯丁大学完成了前两年的医学本科学习，并且两年都名列班级第一。由于费用问题，他最终在新加坡国立大学完成了内外全科医学士学位（MBBS）。.
康医生曾任新加坡国家眼科中心（SNEC）住院医师，后升任副顾问眼科医生。在SNEC工作结束后，康医生曾任新加坡陈笃生医院眼科研究所顾问。.
克里斯托弗·康博士
内外全科医学士、眼科医学硕士、爱丁堡皇家外科学院院士、眼科专科医师（2003年） 眼科顾问医师