Eye Exams (top)
We examine patients of all ages from birth to seniors. Eye exam are comprehensive, covering all major eye functions. They include a review of your eye problem, eye and health history, visual acuity with and without any prescription eyewear, determination of your new prescription (refraction), ability to change focus (accommodation), eye alignment, eye muscle strength and coordination, eye tracking, external eye health (including check for cataracts), internal eye health (including optic nerve and retina), depth perception or 3D vision, color vision, pupil reflexes, eye pressure(glaucoma check), and peripheral vision. Exams are concluded with a discussion of the diagnosis and treatment.

Supplemental tests are performed when standard tests indicate a potential problem that requires further investigation or confirmation. See below for description of additional tests.

Pediatric Eye Exams cover the same eye functions as adults (described above), but may be performed with different techniques or instrumentation. Young children (infants and toddlers) do not have to be verbal to have a complete eye exam, nor do they need to know the alphabet. Examination results and expected norms are discussed with parents, as well as recommendations for proper eye development and prevention of future eye problems. Children with fears about going to the doctor are handled with unprecedented care. Dr. Bloch is residency trained in pediatric eye care and is a semi-professional magician. He will finesse his way through the exam with games, clever chatter, showing cartoons, and performing magic tricks. Your child will won’t even realize their being examined. In many cases, children have so much fun they want to do it again.

Contact Lens Evaluation and Fitting (top)
Getting fitted for contact lenses requires additional tests and measurements. During this extended examination, the doctor will measure the outer size and shape of your eye (cornea). He will then fit contact lenses to your eyes to match the shape and prescription that you require to see properly and feel comfortable. New contact lens wearers will be trained on how to insert, remove, and care for the contact lenses in a session following the lens fit. Follow up visits will be scheduled according to each patients needs to monitor any health or vision changes that may occurred from contact lens use.

Contact lenses come in all prescriptions including nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and bifocal. Not all prescriptions are available in all types of contact lens materials, some patients will do better with soft contacts others will do better with gas permeable contacts. Patients with higher prescriptions have fewer options and require more expensive lenses. Special contact lens fits for irregular shaped eyes and post-surgical cases are also available, but will require extra time and fees. During the exam, the doctor will discuss which lenses are best for you and their cost.

Treatment of Eye Infection, Allergy and Disease (top)
Patients with red eyes may have an eye infection, allergy, disease, or injury. Dr. Bloch can see you for a red eye problem either during regular office hours or after closing on an emergency basis. If you suffer a red eye, painful eye, or lose vision quickly please call us so we can provide you prompt medical care.

Dispensing of Eyewear (top)
We carry a large selection of both adult and pediatric eyewear. We stock frames which range from name brand to designer and that fit any budget. To name a few, we have Marchon, Fendi, Calvin Klein, Nautica, Nike, Coach, Vera Wang, Gallery, Disney, Ray Ban , and X-Games. Our opticians can help you select the styles and features that make you look and feel the best. We will also explain all your lens options including different lens designs, materials, tints, and coatings. Whether you are looking for everyday glasses, sunglasses, reading glasses, computer glasses, or sports glasses we have the right products for you.

If glasses are not for you, we dispense contact lenses from all major contact lens manufacturers. We sell both conventional and disposable contact lenses, including lenses for astigmatism, to change your eye color, and bifocal lenses. We can refill your most recent prescription or provide a new one for you. If needed, contact lenses can be order by phone and mailed to you.

Assessment of Eye Problems Causing Reading or Learning Difficulty (top)
Since 80% of what a child learns in school happens through vision, it is crucial their eyesight and visual processing skills be tested. A child performing poorly in school, especially in reading, could have an undetected vision problem despite 20/20 clarity.
Your child can be tested for uncontrolled focusing, improper tracking, poor eye coordination, visual memory and other visual organizational skills that impact reading, spelling, writing, math, and comprehension. See the tabs on Warning Signs for Vision problems and Not All Vision Problems Require Glasses for more information.

Vision Therapy - A Comprehensive Program of Eye Exercises & Eye-Training (top)
Not all vision problems can be corrected with the use of glasses or contacts. Sometimes a persons eye muscles are weak and do not work efficiently. Just like other muscles in the body can fatigue, cramp, and be inflexible, so can eye muscles that control focusing, eye alignment, and tracking. When a person wants to gain strength, flexibility, stamina, speed, and accuracy in performance, they work out. Likewise, eye exercises or Vision Therapy can be prescribed to enhance visual performance. With special exercises prescribed by the doctor, you can see clearer, focus longer, and track better. In some instances, you may even be able to get rid of your glasses.

Many children show signs of vision problems which can develop into vision-related learning problems in school. Ask about our highly successful, comprehensive vision therapy program. With regular vision therapy sessions of treatment, our trained professionals can help turn these problems around. Watch the delight in your child's eyes as their learning skills improve and they begin to have greater success in school, and in life.

Perception Training (top)
In some cases, a person will continually mistake what they see. This occurs because they either see it wrong from uncorrected eyesight or they have trouble organizing what they see. Vision Perception Training helps you better organize what you see. It teaches you how to pay attention to and remember visual details. It is used to treat patients that have difficulty with visual memory, poor eye-hand coordination, reduced awareness of their surroundings, confusion of right and left, recognizing differences in similar objects, and classifying by size, shape, or spatial orientation. In students, this could present in multiple ways such as forgetting what they read, inaccurate copy skill, reversing letters/words/numbers, sloppy handwriting, frequently misspelling, poor comprehension, clumsiness, and more.

Reading Therapy (top)
For students behind in reading and spelling ability, we have special programs to help them as well. Training in this area works on quick recognition of words by teaching sixty common letter clusters used in English language. The letter clusters are only two or three letter combinations with distinct sounds that never change despite their placement within a word. Students are taught to systematically build words that rhyme or sound similar using the key clusters. Then they are taught to breakdown words by first identifying the clusters in the words before reading the word. To improve spelling, the assembly process is reversed by recognizing and building using the sounds of the same letter clusters. Most students using this process generally learn to read and spell above their grade level within several weeks.

Low Vision Examination and Treatment (top)
Supplemental examination and treatment is available for individuals who suffer permanent vision loss from damage to the retina or optic nerve. Patients who have been diagnosed with lower than normal vision due to macular degeneration, glaucoma, cataracts, or other disease, may need their vision magnified in order to see better. Low vision examination determines the extent of a person’s remaining vision and which optical devices will permit the greatest enhancement of their vision. In most cases, low vision problems are treated with different types of magnifiers such as magnifying glasses, hand magnifiers, magnifying mirrors, special telescopes, and video magnifiers. Other visual aids used by partially sighted individuals include prisms, filters, special lights, and large print materials. During the exam, the doctor will discuss which devices will best suit your needs and lifestyle.