Primary and Specialty Care Services
Primary Care Services
- Comprehensive Vision Examinations – 20/20 just means that the person can clearly see a certain letter on the standard eye chart (equivalent to what a person with normal vision should be able to see at 20 feet). There’s so much more to healthy vision than 20/20! Our comprehensive vision exam goes beyond 20/20 to evaluate many important visual skills.
- Treatment of Eye Infections & Diseases – In addition to protecting your eyes from accidents, early detection and treatment of eye problems is the best way to keep your healthy vision throughout your life. By age 65, one in three Americans has some form of vision-impairing eye disease. Most do not know it because there are often no warning symptoms or they assume that poor sight is a natural part of growing older. In many cases, blindness and vision loss are preventable. Some eye disease facts include:
- Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness in the United States, and the most common cause of blindness among African Americans. More than three million people have glaucoma, but half do not realize it because there are often no warning symptoms.
- Approximately 24 million people in the United States have diabetes and nearly one-quarter of them do not know it. Diabetes is the leading cause of new blindness among adults and people with diabetes are 25 times more likely to become blind than people without it. By detecting and treating diabetic retinopathy early through annual, dilated eye exams, people with diabetes can preserve their sight.
- Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of vision loss in people 65 years or older in the United States. It affects more than 10 million Americans according to the National Eye Institute. Last reviewed and updated in February 2009, by the American Academy of Ophthalmology. For more information on other eye diseases, please visit www.eyesmart.com.
- Contact Lens Fitting and Follow-up, including soft disposables and specialty services of Orthokeratology, RGPs (hard lenses), toric lenses, and multi‐focal lenses.
- Wide selection of eyewear – We have over 700 frames available. Price ranges from $50 to over $500. We carry brand names such as Gucci, Versace, Coach, Armani and more!
- InfantSEE® Exams – We are proud members of
Dr. Blackburn is a leading doctor in Delaware for InfantSEE® Exams. They are provided free of charge with a physician referral for babies 6‐12 months old. These exams are specifically geared to monitor early ocular health and development.InfantSEE®, a public health program, managed by Optometry’s CharityTM – The AOA Foundation, is designed to ensure that eye and vision care becomes an integral part of infant wellness care to improve a child’s quality of life. Under this program, AOA optometrists provide a comprehensive eye and vision assessments for infants within the first year of life regardless of a family’s income or access to insurance coverage. (www.InfantSEE.org)
Specialty Care Services
- Vision Rehabilitation/Vision Therapy is a specialized optometric therapy program for our patients with vision disorders. Each patient learns and practices specific eye activities with provided equipment and our trained therapists. Through vision rehabilitation, we have helped our patients overcome visual challenges, increase reading speed, and relieve vision‐related symptoms such as car sickness, eye strain and headaches. For more detailed information on Vision Therapy, please see Vision Rehabilitation section.
- Visual motor and visual perceptual evaluations and treatment
- Non-surgical treatment for Strabismus (eyeturns) and Amblyopia (lazy eye) – When necessary, Co-management of strabismus surgery and neurological conditions with associated visual conditions.
- Developmental Vision Testing determines whether or not a patient is diagnosed with visual dysfunctions that interfere with life skills and educational development such as attention, reading, and learning and including ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia, Reading, and Tracking Problems, etc.
- Dyslexia Testing – It is important to the child or adult to realize the cause of their reading problem. Early detection is extremely important in addressing a proper multi-disciplinary team approach to treatment. Vision therapy can help treat associated eye tracking, eye teaming, eye focusing, and visual processing deficits. He can evaluate whether or not a child has dyslexia and/or associated vision problems.
- Children with Special Needs often have vision problems contributing to their challenges. Our doctors provide diagnoses and treatment for vision problems that impact children with Autism, CP, MS and Downs Syndrome.
- Stroke, Accident and Traumatic Brain Injury Victims – Vision problems associated with stroke and brain injury often suffer from a head injury that can result in visual disturbance. Our vision rehabilitation program can help patients regain visual functions, improve visual vestibular coordination, and learn how to better use the vision that is left.
- Sports Vision Improvement – Sports Vision Training helps many athletes who either have vision disorders or want to give themselves an extra edge with their sports performance. Vision training can improve all the required visual skills needed to excel in sports.
- Total Assessment Program – A Total Approach is very pleased to bring together a panel of professionals to work together on the evaluation of children of all ages. For multiple years now A Total Approach has been able to provide multiple services under one roof that has made it possible for families to decrease their driving in a practical way, but more importantly, have a team approach to their children. Now, together with other esteemed professionals in their respective fields of expertise, we bring the families of America to one place for a full diagnostic work up of their child’s learning and developmental profile that would describe their children’s strengths and weaknesses in full. To learn more about this program, please visit their website.