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Cooing, sitting up and crawling are signs that your baby is growing. Your baby's vision has stages of development too, but usually there are no signs to mark the progress. InfantSEETM is a public health program designed to ensure that eye and vision care becomes an integral part of infant wellness care to improve a child's quality of life. Under this program, member optometrists will provide a comprehensive infant eye assessments within the first year of life.
InfantSEETM assessment between six and 12 months of age is recommended to determine if an infant is at risk for eyes or vision disorders. Since many eye problem arise from conditions that can be identified by an eye doctors in the infant’s first year of life, a parent can give an infant a great gift by seeking an InfantSEETM assessment in addition to the wellness evaluation of the eyes that is done by a pediatrician or family practice doctor. |
One in every 10 children is at risk from undiagnosed eye and vision problems, yet only 13 percent of mothers with children younger than 2 years of age said they had taken their babies to see an eye and vision care professional for a regular check-up or well-care visit. Moreover, many children at risk for a regular check-up or well-care visit. Moreover, many children at risk for eye and vision problems are not being identified at an early age, when many of those problems might be prevented or more easily corrected. Some 4.02 million children were born in 2004, according to the U.S Census Bureau. In approximately 4 percent, strabismus will develop, and amblyopic will develop in 3 percent-this equates to as many as 100,000 infants born each year who are at risk for serious eye and vision problems.
Early detection of eye conditions is the best way to ensure your child has healthy vision for successful development- now and in the future. Log onto www.infantsee.com for more information. |
David Green O.D., FAAO, Chad Green, O.D., FAAO, Shalini K. Vilsack, O.D.
