The optometrist is the one who examines your eyesight and your eyes. If he finds that you need glasses, he gives a prescription to your parents.

The optician is an eyesight specialist. Starting from the prescription written by the optometrist, he helps you to choose your lenses and your frames. Then he adjusts your glasses to the shape of your face.

Some advice

Are you wondering about your eyesight disorder or how to take care of your glasses ?

Ask your optometrist or your optician for advice !

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Become an eyesight advisor and direct the characters to the appropriate eysesigh doctor !

What you need to know

Your children's eyesight is invaluable from birth onwards !

In order to give them every chance to protect their vision potential, an early screening test for eye trouble is highly necessary. Late treatment can result in partial or total eyesight loss. Moreover, a quarter of the pupils who fall behind at school in reading suffer from an uncorrected sight disorder. Fortunately, eyesight disorders are not a fatality ! They are easily corrected, providing the following rules are respected.

Golden Rules

Consult an optometrist at an early age.


At age 6, children have nearly all their visual abilities : an eyesight exam is thus required before they learn how to read and write..

Good eyesight is an asset to succeeding in school !

  • Stimulate your baby's eyesight.
    The more they look, the more they learn how to see ! Most of the learning takes place during the first six months. What can you do ? Show them toys or objects with various shapes, colours and contrasts very early.
  • Watch out for possible behavioural problems and mention them to your eye doctor :
    they blink or frown ? It could be due to a visual disorder.
    For more details : Visual disorders
  • Do not hesitate to ask your eye doctor or your optician to better understand your child's visual disorder as well as its treatment.