| For people spending many hours a day working on a computer or processing paperwork, clear, comfortable vision is key to a productive day. Eyeglasses can help, but some adults and children struggle with eye coordination, focusing, or tracking issues that make reading, learning, and attention difficult.
Hope Clinic, located in Silverdale, now offers diagnosis and treatment of these and other visual skills such as visual perceptual processing that impact functional tasks While the clinic has been offering vision therapy services for these conditions since 2000, patients had to travel to Bellevue for eye examinations and special testing to set up and check progress on treatment programs.
In March, Hope Clinic moved to new quarters and expanded to offer eye exams and testing for children and adults looking for improvements in visual performance for work or school. Eye examinations will be offered in Silverdale through the new practice name, Developmental Vision Associates, PLLC. Vision therapy services will still be offered through Hope Clinic. Developmental Vision Associates, PLLC has specialized techniques for the evaluation of children as young as 6 months of age, or those with special needs. Sophisticated instruments, such as the Visagraph, an infrared eye movement detection device, can evaluate visual performance, efficiency, and fluency of silent reading.
Dr. Alan P. Pearson, an optometric physician, will staff the clinic two days per week. He has over 15 years experience in both primary care and specialty optometry practice settings with an emphasis on children and adults with school or work related vision issues. Pearson has been with Hope Clinic since 2002. It is not necessary to have a specific work or learning issue for an examination. Routine eye examinations are open to anyone. For more information or appointments contact the clinic at (360) 698-2390. |
