Festive season.

With the festive season fast approaching, many of us have started thinking about planning our party outfits – in some cases some of us have already started shopping for them! But how many of us have thought about how our glasses would go with that gorgeous new frock? Every thought about contact lenses? There are loads of options now available, and daily disposables are ideal for the festive season – especially given you can just throw them away at the end of an evening. And if you’ve tried them before and never gotten on with them, what about giving them another go?

Ted Baker

The Ted Baker Eyewear collection reflects the brand's distinctive and unconventional approach to fashion, and appeals to style-conscious men and women who trust Ted to deliver something out of the ordinary.

In all 3 of our practices we now have a whole new range of

TED BAKER LONDON.

They are a great range with a lovely mixture of metal and acetate frames, in all sorts of colours. We have a teenage range too, with some smaller sized frames ideal for the younger and smaller out there.

This range is also brilliant value as the prices all include our single vision lenses. The junior range are all £125.00 for frame and lenses, and the adult range £150.00.

Do you know anybody who has learning difficulties or difficulty paying attention in class?

In some cases, this may be caused by stress on the visual system. To help in understanding some of the visual skills required for school work, think about the classroom environment. The visual skills required in a classroom setting are numerous and include:

Distance vision – being able to see the board

Near vision – being able to see the words in a book

Focussing flexibility – being able to maintain clear vision while shifting focus from a distant object to a near one

Tracking/eye movement skills – being able to aim both eyes accurately and move smoothly across a line of print or from object to object with ease

Eye teaming – being able to coordinate the two eyes together so that they are precisely directed at the same object at the same time

Eye focusing – maintaining, for long periods of time, completely clear vision whilst looking at near or distant objects

All of these things can be assessed by an optometrist during a thorough eye examination.

Help may be provided in the form of prescribed spectacles or exercises. Beyond this, we are also able to offer assessments to determine whether coloured overlays are helpful – these are sometimes found to be beneficial for people with dyslexia.