By Carole Burns, OD, FCOVD, and Mark Wright, OD, FCOVD
Independent optical practitioners (ECPs) seem to be the provider of choice for parents who have taken their child to receive an eye exam sometime within the past two years, according to The Vision Council's VisionWatch Parent-Child Vision Care Report. In fact, 51.2 percent of all parents with children who have received an eye exam within the past 24 months took their child to an independent ECP for that exam.