With these lines we would like to take the opportunity to explain the difference between vision and sight and what optometry is.
Many times we use the words sight and vision interchangeably, although we refer to different concepts: sight is the ability to discriminate details, however, vision is like our brain understands what our eyes see. Therefore, sight is more related to the amount of vision we have and vision to the processing of visual information.
And what’s optometry? It is the science which deals with studying and improving the skills and abilities of the visual system damaged by an imbalance between the capacities of the individual and the demands of the environment.
If the knowledge we have today were the same as 25 years ago, a visual examination would just pretend to know if a child had a 100% visual acuity (ability to see clearly). Today we know that having good visual skills, essential to good school learning, is at least as important as seeing well.