Functional Vision Assessment

Understanding How Vision Affects Everyday Activities

A functional vision assessment looks beyond:

"How clearly can you see?"

To ask:

"How are you using vision in everyday life?"

An eye examination provides essential information about eye health and vision, including any eye conditions that need to be considered during a Functional Vision Assessment.

A Functional Vision Assessment has a different, complementary purpose: it explores how you use vision in everyday activities and what may be making those activities difficult.

The assessment looks at how different aspects of vision work together during activities that rely on vision, and how your visual performance may change depending on visual activity, environment or fatigue.

The findings help what may be contributing to functional difficulties, what supports better visual performance, and what should be prioritised for support or training.

A Functional Vision Assessment complements medical, ophthalmological and neurological examinations, including assessment for appropriate optical correction (glasses). It does not replace these examinations or establish a medical diagnosis.

I start with Your Experience

Your experience, needs and everyday goals help guide what we explore during the assessment.

What activities are difficult or require more effort than before?

What do you experience when you try to do activities that require your vision?

Are there particular situations in which difficulties are more noticeable?

What would you most like to be able to improve or do more easily?

Your Functional Vision Profile

From Assessment Findings to Your Functional Vision Profile

The findings from the assessment are brought together to create your individual Functional Vision Profile. It gives an overall picture of how you use vision, what is working well, where you experience difficulties and what may help.

The Profile Brings Together

What Is Working Well and What Is Difficult

I look at what you can do well when using vision and where you experience difficulties or need more visual effort.

How Your Vision Changes in Different Situations

I look at whether some activities are easier or more difficult than others and whether your vision works differently in different situations.

What Makes Things Easier or More Difficult

I consider situations that may affect how you use vision, such as where you are looking, tiredness, a busy environment, lighting, or the demands of the activity.

How This Affects Your Everyday Life

I look at how visual difficulties may affect how easily you carry out activities at home, school, work, when moving around or taking part in everyday life.

What Is Most Important to You

Together, we identify which difficulties are most important for your everyday needs and what you would most like to improve.

Recommendations and Next Steps

Based on your overall profile, I suggest practical individualised visual skills training or further professional evaluation when needed.

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