NHS children’s eye examinations are free to all patients under 16 years. We recommend that even pre-school children should have their eyes tested, as vision develops rapidly in the early years. We have even tested children as young as six months old.
If your child struggles with reading letters and numbers, we also use various other methods such word matching or picture identification which is enough for an optometrist to examine vision.
Autistic or non-verbal patients can also have eye examinations using other non-invasive methods.