Northwest Vision Development Center

At the time of my sons first appointment with Dr. Charron he’d had approximately 9 dilated vision exams at two clinics by 5 different optometrists over the course of a year and a half. The first (local and trusted optometrist) told me there was no reason he couldn’t see, he was making up the answers he was giving and that he must just want glasses. The second clinic was a vision therapy clinic where 4 of their optometrists did exams on my son at various points before, during and after participating in vision therapy. They continued to recommend vision therapy even though there was literally no improvement in my sons vision after 12 weeks of vision therapy and about 12 additional weeks of phototherapy.
I took my son to Northwest Vision Development Center because I decided that if he was going to need ongoing therapy I would need to find someone closer to my home.
Both myself and my sons pediatrician had trusted that the optometrists he had seen would let us know if they had concerns and since they had not indicated they believed there were any related medical conditions neither of us realized there might be something else going on.
During the visit at NWVDC my son was evaluated for vision therapy and then seen for an eye exam by Dr. Charron. After the exam Dr. Charron told me that my son should be seeing better, that he wasn’t going to recommend vision therapy because he didn’t think it would help and that I needed to find out what was causing my sons vision issue.
Fast forward 7 weeks to my sons appointment at Children’s Ophthalmology. It turns out he has juvenile onset macular degeneration.
Thankfully the length of time it took to get this diagnosis had no additional negative impact on my son, but I give Dr. Charron a huge amount of credit for 1) Not taking advantage of a parent who didn’t know any better by recommending additional vision therapy, and 2) For setting me straight by letting me know there was more to this than I realized at the time.
Had my son ended up being seen by NWVDC originally I would have saved myself close to $ 3000 and I would have saved both myself and my son a lot of time and frustration.
I can’t speak to the vision therapy done in this clinic since my son did not end up being treated; however, I would recommend this clinic to anybody because I saw how thorough they were in evaluating my child. After this experience I trust Dr. Charron 100% to do what is best for his patients. I would recommend Dr. Charron to anybody that asked for my input.