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InfantSee
"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.
The American Optometric Association encourages parents to include a trip to the optometrist in the list of well-baby check-ups. Assessments at six to twelve months of age can determine healthy development of vision. Early detection of eye conditions is the best way to ensure your child has healthy vision for successful development—now and in the future.
InfantSEE® is a public health program, managed by Optometry's Charity™ - The AOA Foundation, 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, Drs. Kubica and Langford provide a free comprehensive infant eye and vision assessment within the first year of life regardless of a family's income or access to insurance coverage."
Optometry Giving Site
At least 670 million people around the world are blind or vision impaired simply because they do not have access to an eye examination and a pair of glasses. This is because in many developing countries there are not enough trained eye care personnel and there is insufficient infrastructure to support these desperately needed eye care services.
Optometry Giving Sight funds the solution by supporting programs that offer not only eye exams and glasses in countries with little or no access to them, but that establish the infrastructure and human resources required for sustainable, quality vision care.
The solution to blindness and impaired vision due to refractive error is simple – provide quality primary eye care. There is no one better prepared to take on this challenge than the global Optometric community.
SEE TO LEARN®
www.seetolearn.comGood vision is critical to learning . . .
- 80 percent of learning is done visually
- 20 percent of kindergarten children have vision problems
- more than 70 percent of juvenile delinquents have vision problem
What we can do to help . . . SEE TO LEARN® is a preventative program designed to ensure that kindergarten children entering school can see to learn and to educate parents and teachers about the warning signs of vision problems in all school-age children. Drs. Kubica and Langford will provide a free vision assessment for your three-year-old that is designed to detect vision conditions that require correction at an early age. Although vision problems among the very young are generally uncommon, some serious conditions like amblyopia (lazy eye) and strabismus (turned eye), require care before age 5 to avoid permanent loss of vision.
