Glasses

18 months

We just got back from our appointment with Dr. L, our ophthalmologist. I have been looking forward to this appointment for a long time because his eye contact and object tracking have improved so much. Dr. L said that Nathan is just about caught up to his age.

His farsightedness is a little worse, so Nathan is going to need glasses. He has +8 in his left eye and +9 in his right, I think. This should help him as most activities are close up at this age. It will be interesting to see if glasses alter some of Nathan’s behaviors. I am hoping that with glasses he might pick up on some ASL signs that we have been doing, or some communication cards that we are going to start. So far, we don’t have any real way of communicating yet.

Nathan also might not have Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI). It may be that he was just developmentally delayed and now is getting more on track. The doctor will give us more of a diagnosis after our next visit. By that time, we should be able to assess how he is doing with glasses and any behavioral changes that might have occurred.

So next week, the battle of the glasses will begin. Rachel also started wearing glasses around 18 months. She was terribly stubborn about not wearing them and we had quite the battle. Now we battle to get her to take them off when she goes to sleep. We will have to see how Nathan likes being able to see. The good thing is that this time around, I have many hands to help me continually put the glasses back in place.