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During the infant and toddler years, your child has been developing many vision skills and has been learning how to see. In the preschool years this process continues as your child develops visually guided eye-hand-body coordination, fine motor skills and the visual-motor skills necessary to learn to read.
As a parent, you should watch for signs that may indicate a vision development problem, including a short attention span for the child's age, difficulty with eye-hand-body coordination in ball play and bike riding, avoidance of coloring and puzzles and other detailed activities.
There are everyday things that you can do at home to help your preschooler's vision develop as it should. These activities include reading aloud to your child and letting him or her see what you are reading; providing a chalkboard, finger paints and different shaped blocks and showing your child how to use them in imaginative play; providing safe opportunities to use playground equipment like a jungle gym and balance beam and allowing time for interacting with other children and for playing independently.
By age three, your child should have a thorough eye examination by Dr. Lotz to make sure your preschooler's vision is developing properly and there is no evidence of eye disease. If needed, Dr. Lotz can prescribe treatment to correct vision development problems. |
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Here are some tips to make your child's examination a positive experience:
1. Make an appointment early in the day
2. Talk about the examination in advance and
encourage your child's questions
3. Explain the examination in your child's
terms and compare the instruments to tiny
flashlights
4. Emphasize that your child will not be given
shots at an eye examination
Unless Dr. Lotz advises otherwise, your child's next eye examination should be at age five. By comparing test results of the two examinations, Dr. Lotz can tell how well your child's vision is developing for the next major step - the school years!
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