Eye patch

About this visual support

An eye patch gives nothing back on the day it is worn. Your child sees less precisely while it is on, loses part of the visual field and notices the difference in everything from stairs to finding a glass on the table, while the benefit only appears months later at the eye clinic. From where your child stands that is a poor deal, and one explanation is rarely enough to make it add up.

So visual support here is less about teaching a procedure and more about making the moment known in advance. A card for washing hands, one for putting the patch on, one for how long it stays and one for taking it off makes the sequence readable, including for children who are sensitive to sensory changes. A tip specific to patching: put it on right before something your child already likes, so the hard minute is always followed by the same reliable activity rather than by empty time.

In the Routined app you can show the pictures alongside a countdown for how long the patch stays on. You get fourteen days before anything costs money.